The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL), established in 1954 as India’s first Export Promotion Council for cotton textile exports, hosted its Annual Awards Function on 25 May 2026 at The Leela Hotel. The event recognised outstanding performance by member exporters across multiple categories, including the prestigious Platinum Trophy for highest global exports.
This year’s edition also highlighted employment generation within the labour-intensive textile sector, with special recognition for companies contributing significantly to job creation. New award categories were introduced to honour excellence in E-commerce, ESG practices, and innovation.
The event was graced by Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Hon’ble Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, as Chief Guest, along with Smt. Vrunda Desai, Textile Commissioner.
In his opening remarks, TEXPROCIL Chairman Shri Vijay Agarwal emphasised the Council’s scale and impact, noting its 2,000 member base and approximately US$ 11 billion in exports. He also highlighted that the cotton textile ecosystem supports nearly 35 million livelihoods directly and indirectly. He reiterated TEXPROCIL’s role in promoting the “Kasturi Cotton” brand through certification, traceability, and branding initiatives.
He acknowledged the Government of India’s continued support during multiple global disruptions since 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic, tariff fluctuations, and geopolitical tensions. Key interventions such as the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat package, ECLGS, MSME support measures, liquidity assistance, and trade facilitation reforms were noted as critical to industry resilience.
The Chairman also welcomed recent policy initiatives such as the Export Promotion Mission (Budget 2025–26) and the Textile Expansion and Employment (TEEM) Scheme along with the Tex Eco Initiative (Budget 2026–27). These initiatives are expected to strengthen competitiveness, sustainability, modernisation, and employment generation across the textile sector.
He further reiterated TEXPROCIL’s ongoing efforts in capacity building, exporter awareness programmes, and MSME engagement through webinars, consultations, and digital trade facilitation platforms. Highlighting India’s expanding opportunities through Free Trade Agreements, he stated that Indian textiles are well-positioned to emerge as a trusted global sourcing hub.
He also stressed the need for sustained policy support in areas such as raw material availability at global parity prices, rationalisation of embedded taxes and levies, affordable export credit, and logistics efficiency to achieve the sector’s long-term vision of a US$ 350 billion market, including US$ 100 billion in exports by 2030.
Speaking at the event, Textile Commissioner Smt. Vrunda Desai expressed gratitude for recent government initiatives supporting the textile sector, including schemes such as the Textile Expansion and Employment Scheme, National Fibre Scheme, Tex-Eco Initiative, and Samarth 2.0.
She also highlighted the District-led Textiles Transformation initiative aimed at developing high-potential textile districts into globally competitive hubs by leveraging MSME ecosystems, traditional skills, and cluster-based strengths.
Further, she discussed key government programmes including PM MITRA Parks, the Production Linked Incentive Scheme, the National Technical Textiles Mission, along with ongoing efforts in sustainability, traceability, quality enhancement, and modernisation.
She reaffirmed the Ministry of Textiles’ commitment to strengthening the sector and enhancing India’s global competitiveness across the textile value chain.
During the event, the Advanced Certificate Programme in International Trade (ACPIT) was formally launched by the Hon’ble Finance Minister. The programme aims to build structured capacity in international trade, aligned with government policy initiatives to strengthen India’s export ecosystem.
Following this, the Hon’ble Finance Minister presented the TEXPROCIL Awards to the winning exporters.
In her address, the Hon’ble Minister said…..
Mr. Ravi Sam, Vice Chairman of TEXPROCIL, delivered the Vote of Thanks, concluding the ceremony.
