Ministry of Textiles Signs MoUs with 15 States to Strengthen Data Systems and Integrated Planning under Tex-RAMPS Scheme

• Tex-RAMPS = Textiles focused Research, Assessment, Monitoring, Planning And Start-Up — a Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Textiles to plug gaps in textile data, research, innovation and capacity-building.
• On 8 January 2026, MoUs were signed with 15 States at the National Textiles Ministers' Conference, Guwahati, to operationalise the scheme's statistics & planning pillars at cluster/district level.
• Relevant for GS-III (economy, industry, textile sector, statistical systems) and GS-II (Centre–State cooperation, cooperative federalism).