Mumbai, April 22 -- Samajwadi Party MLA Rais Shaikh has urged the Maharashtra government to immediately withdraw the mandatory online registration requirement for availing electricity subsidies for powerlooms, warning that the move could further damage the already distressed textile sector.
In a letter to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Textile Minister Sanjay Savkare, Shaikh highlighted multiple challenges confronting the industry, including rising transportation costs, an LPG shortage that has led to partial shutdowns, and growing unemployment triggered by the ongoing conflict in West Asia.
He pointed out that global developments such as shifting trade tariffs under former US President Donald Trump, disruption in the Strait of Horm...