Gujarat Textile Policy: Assistance for Quality Certification

What is the Gujarat Textile Policy assistance for quality certification?

Gujarat Textile Policy is an umbrella industrial policy notified by the Industries and Mines Department, Government of Gujarat, and administered through the Industries Commissionerate at Gandhinagar. The current policy is operative from 1 October 2024 to 29 September 2029, and it replaced the earlier 2019–2023 textile policy. The stated aim is to raise investment across the whole textile value chain, strengthen the garments, apparel and technical textile segments, reduce the carbon footprint of the sector, and make Gujarat's textile industry globally competitive.

Assistance for Quality Certification is one component inside that policy. The component reimburses a textile unit part of what it spends to obtain a recognised quality certification and to buy the testing equipment that certification requires. This matters commercially: buyers in export markets, and increasingly domestic institutional buyers, will not place orders with a mill that cannot produce a recognised certificate, and the certification and testing setup can cost several lakh rupees before a single order arrives.

The Industries Commissionerate runs a parallel quality certification scheme for MSMEs generally. The textile policy component is the one to use if the unit falls within an eligible textile activity, and an applicant should not claim the same expenditure twice under two schemes.

How much money does the scheme give?

The published standard of assistance has two limbs and one shared ceiling:

• 50% of the certification fee charged by the certifying agency.
• 50% of the cost of testing equipment or machinery needed for the certification, including calibration charges for that equipment.
• A combined maximum of Rs 10,00,000.

Eligible certifications named in the scheme include BIS, ISI, WHO-GMP and Hallmark, along with other recognised national and international certifications. The exclusions are just as important: travel, hotel and surveillance charges billed by the certifying agency are not reimbursed. So a unit that spends Rs 6 lakh on certification fees and Rs 12 lakh on testing equipment cannot claim Rs 9 lakh. The 50% works out higher than the ceiling, and the payout stops at Rs 10 lakh.

Who is eligible for this component?

A unit can claim if:

• The unit is an industrial unit in Gujarat carrying on an eligible textile activity under the Gujarat Textile Policy 2024.
• The certification is issued by a recognised national or international certifying body.
• The unit has actually incurred the expenditure on certification and, where claimed, on testing equipment.
• The application is filed within one year from the date of certification.
• The unit holds a valid registration certificate under the policy issued by the Industries Commissioner.

The following cannot apply or are not eligible:

• Individuals, weavers, artisans, tailors and job workers applying in a personal capacity. This is a business incentive and there is no personal benefit component.
• Units whose certificate is more than one year old at the date of application.
• Claims for travel, hotel or surveillance charges, which are excluded by the policy text.
• Expenditure already reimbursed under another state scheme for the same certificate or the same equipment.
• Activities outside the eligible list in the policy. Applicants should read the eligible-activity annexure in the guidelines, because the textile policy defines eligibility activity by activity rather than by broad sector.

What documents are required?

How to apply for Gujarat Textile Policy quality certification assistance

1. Confirm that your activity is an eligible textile activity under the Gujarat Textile Policy 2024 by reading the policy and guidelines published at ic.gujarat.gov.in, including the amendment dated 31 January 2026.
2. Apply for registration under the policy in the prescribed format to the Industries Commissioner, within one year from loan disbursement, start of production, or the policy operative date, whichever is later. The Industries Commissioner issues a registration certificate after scrutiny and verification.
3. Obtain the quality certification and keep the certificate, the agency's fee invoice and the equipment invoices.
4. File the eligibility certificate application at the right office:

• MSME units with gross fixed capital investment up to Rs 10 crore — General Manager, District Industries Centre.
• MSME units with GFCI above Rs 10 crore and up to Rs 50 crore; MSME Commissioner, within one year of the date of commercial production or of the issue of the government resolution, whichever is later.
• Units other than MSMEs: Industries Commissioner, within one year of the date of commercial production or of the registration certificate, whichever is later.

5. Submit the claim for quality certification assistance within one year from the date of certification, attaching the certificate and invoices.
6. Cooperate with the verification inspection carried out by the receiving office before sanction.
7. Receive the sanctioned amount in the unit's bank account after approval.

How do you track a claim?

Gujarat does not publish a public online tracker for textile policy claims. The practical route is the office where you filed: the District Industries Centre for smaller MSME units, the MSME Commissioner's office in the middle band, and the Industries Commissionerate for larger units. Keep the inward number given on the acknowledgement, because every follow-up will be indexed to it. The Industries Commissionerate can be reached on 079-23252683 or 079-23252617, and the Deputy Commissioner (MSME Incentive) at Udyog Bhavan, Gandhinagar on 079-23258381 / 23258386 / 23258387.

Common reasons a claim fails

• Filing more than one year after certification. This is the single most common fatal error and cannot be cured.
• No registration certificate under the policy. Registration comes first; a claim from an unregistered unit has no basis.
• Claiming excluded costs, particularly surveillance audit fees, travel and hotel bills of the certifying agency's auditors.
• Invoices in a different name from the applicant unit, for example in the name of a director or a sister concern.
• Incomplete Detailed Project Report, which stalls scrutiny more often than it triggers outright rejection.
• Wrong office. A large unit filing at the District Industries Centre, or a small unit filing directly with the Industries Commissioner, loses weeks in transfer.

Where do you raise a grievance?

Grievances go to the office that holds the file, and then upward to the Industries Commissionerate, Block No. 1, Udyog Bhavan, Sector 11, Gandhinagar - 382 017. For MSME incentive matters the department publishes the email addresses msmeinc@gujarat.gov.in and dci-msme-inc@gujarat.gov.in, and for general Industries Commissionerate correspondence iccord@gujarat.gov.in.

Applicants should note that the Gujarat Textile Policy 2024 has already been amended once, on 31 January 2026. Rates, definitions and eligible activities in an industrial policy do change mid-term, so read the current guidelines PDF on ic.gujarat.gov.in rather than a summary before committing expenditure.