SAATHI for power loom: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 15 July 2022

SAATHI for power loom

✓Ministries of Power and Textiles have now joined hands under a new initiative SAATHI (Sustainable and Accelerated Adoption of efficient Textile technologies to Help small Industries).

Coverage

 ✓The SAATHI initiative of the Government will be jointly implemented by EESL and the office of the Textile Commissioner on a pan-India basis.

✓Implementation

Under this initiative, Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a public sector entity under the administrative control of the Ministry of Power, would procure energy-efficient power looms, motors, and Rapier kits in bulk and provide them to the small and medium Powerloom units at no upfront cost.