Chairman, All Pakistan Cotton Powerlooms Association (APCPA), Abdul Haq, has said that big investors and industrialist have fully benefited by up-gradation in ‘Textile Vision 2005’, while small units, especially the powerlooms industry, had been totally ignored. He said that under ‘Textile Vision 2005’, the work was done throughout the country relating to the up-gradation, under which spinning and processing were not functioning in accordance with their production capacity. In the weaving sector, only the mill sector had been upgraded, but the small scale weaving sector, which was called the non-organised sector had got nothing from the ;Textile Vision 2005.

He said that the programme of up-gradation announced for the powerlooms industry by Federal Ministry of Industries and SMEDA had totally flopped. When the handlooms of textiles were free of quota, than no one bothered to listen to the miseries of the sinking cottage industry. Now, when India has become the leading exporter of handloom products, we have decided to change our thinking. 

He urged the government to convene a roundtable of the ignored segments of the textile sector in the Textile Vision 2005, so that factors relating to failure could be sorted out. If the powerlooms industry had got the facility of research and development and up-gradation facilities, and the electricity tariff had been reduced, then these ancillaries textile units would also have flourished.