PM MITRA Parks Scheme (Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel)

What is the PM MITRA Parks Scheme?

The PM MITRA Parks Scheme; Pradhan Mantri Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel Parks; is a scheme of the Ministry of Textiles that funds the creation of seven mega textile parks, each on 1,000 acres or more. PM MITRA was announced in the Union Budget for 2021-22 and approved by the Government in October 2021 with a total outlay of Rs 4,445 crore over five years, covering the period 2021-22 to 2027-28.

PM MITRA is built on the 5F vision: Farm to Fibre, Fibre to Factory, Factory to Fashion, Fashion to Foreign. The idea is to put the entire textile value chain in one place: spinning, weaving, processing and dyeing, printing, and garment manufacturing on a single site, so that a bale of cotton does not travel across three states before it becomes a shirt. According to the Ministry of Textiles, locating the chain at one place is intended mainly to cut the industry's logistics cost.

This is an industrial infrastructure scheme, not a citizen benefit scheme. There is no application form for an individual, no stipend and no subsidy paid to a household. The money flows to the park Special Purpose Vehicles and to manufacturing companies that set up units inside the parks.

What each park contains

• Core infrastructure, incubation centre and plug-and-play facilities, developed factory sites, roads, power, water and waste water systems, a common processing house and Common Effluent Treatment Plant, design centres and testing centres.
• Support infrastructure; workers' hostels and housing, a logistics park, warehousing, medical facilities, and training and skill development facilities.
• Land use split to 50% of the area for pure manufacturing, 20% for utilities and 10% for commercial development.

Where are the 7 PM MITRA parks?

The Government received 17 preliminary project proposals from state governments and selected the sites by a challenge method against objective criteria. The seven finalised sites are:

State proposals had to show ready availability of a contiguous, encumbrance-free land parcel of 1,000-plus acres along with related textile facilities and an existing ecosystem. The state government's own contribution is the provision of that 1,000 acres for a world-class industrial estate.

Who is eligible for PM MITRA support?

Who can participate:

• State governments, which proposed sites, provide the land and hold majority ownership in the park SPV.
• Park Special Purpose Vehicles, jointly owned by the state government and the Government of India in Public Private Partnership mode, which receive the Development Capital Support.
• Master developers, selected on criteria developed jointly by the state and central governments, which build the park and maintain it through the concession period.
• Textile manufacturing companies — spinning, weaving, processing, dyeing, printing and garmenting units, that take land inside a park and can claim Competitiveness Incentive Support.

Who cannot apply:

• Individuals cannot apply. There is no personal benefit, no stipend and no household subsidy under PM MITRA. A weaver, tailor or textile worker is not eligible for a direct payment under this scheme, and should look instead at schemes meant for artisans and workers.
• New state site proposals are not eligible, because all seven sites have been finalised and site selection under the current approval is closed.
• Units outside a notified PM MITRA park are not eligible for Competitiveness Incentive Support, whatever their line of business.

How much money does PM MITRA provide?

Development Capital Support (DCS) is viability gap funding for the common infrastructure of the park itself:

• Greenfield park to 30% of project cost, capped at Rs 500 crore.
• Brownfield park to 30% of the cost of the balance infrastructure and support facilities still to be developed, after assessment, capped at Rs 200 crore.

Competitiveness Incentive Support (CIS) is a separate fund of Rs 300 crore per park, paid to newly established manufacturing units at up to 3% of the unit's turnover. CIS is deliberately turnover-linked: a new plant that has not broken even needs support until it scales production and establishes viability, and the incentive tapers naturally as the unit grows.

The SPV, in which the state government holds majority ownership, is entitled to part of the lease rental from the developed industrial sites, and can plough that back into expanding the park, running skill development, and welfare measures for workers. Convergence with other central and state schemes is allowed, subject to the eligibility rules of those schemes.

How to apply for space or incentives in a PM MITRA park

1. Identify the park closest to your raw material, labour and market, one of Virudhunagar, Warangal, Navsari, Kalaburagi, Dhar, Lucknow or Amravati.
2. Contact the park's Special Purpose Vehicle or master developer, through the state's industrial development corporation. In Madhya Pradesh, for example, MPIDC is the master developer for the Dhar park.
3. Submit a project proposal setting out the proposed manufacturing line, land required, planned investment and expected employment, along with incorporation documents, PAN, GST registration and audited financials.
4. Follow the SPV's land allotment process, which is run in phases as infrastructure is completed, and sign the allotment and lease documents on the terms the SPV notifies.
5. Build and commission the unit, complying with the park's common infrastructure requirements, including CETP and zero-liquid-discharge norms where applicable.
6. Claim Competitiveness Incentive Support from the SPV once production starts, supported by a certified turnover statement, since CIS is paid at up to 3% of turnover.

Note that terms, phasing and timelines differ by park, because each SPV runs its own allotment. Confirm the current terms with the SPV before committing capital.

What is the status of the PM MITRA parks in 2026?

PM MITRA is in the construction and allotment phase, not the announcement phase. Special Purpose Vehicles have been incorporated for the greenfield sites and detailed project reports have been finalised for all seven states. Two parks illustrate the pace:

• Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, MPIDC is the master developer for a park of roughly 1,563 acres at Bhainsola village. Land allotment has run in phases, with 1,140 acres allotted and investment proposals from 38 companies reported to exceed Rs 21,500 crore.
• Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, the park is being built at a cost of about Rs 1,894 crore, with a 15 MLD common effluent treatment plant with zero liquid discharge, a 20 MW solar plant and plug-and-play units. Around 190 acres has been allotted to investors, and completion is targeted for December 2027.

Figures for land allotted and investment committed change as each SPV runs new allotment rounds, so treat them as a snapshot rather than a fixed position.

What does PM MITRA mean for workers and small textile units?

PM MITRA does not pay a worker or a small unit directly. The Ministry of Textiles projects roughly 1 lakh direct and 2 lakh indirect jobs per park, which is a build-out projection and not an entitlement. For a worker, the practical effect arrives as employment in units that set up inside a park, plus the workers' hostels, housing, medical and skill development facilities the parks are required to provide.

For a small or medium textile unit, the realistic route is to take an allotment inside a park and use the shared processing house, CETP, testing and design facilities that would be unaffordable to build alone. Units outside the parks gain nothing from PM MITRA and should look to the Ministry of Textiles' other schemes instead.

Where to get help on PM MITRA

• Ministry of Textiles, texmin.gov.in, for scheme guidelines, notifications and the current list of parks.
• The park SPV or the state industrial development corporation, for land allotment, lease terms and CIS claims. This is the correct address for almost every practical query, since the Ministry does not allot land.
• The state textile or industries department, for state-level incentives that can be layered on top through scheme convergence.

No agent or consultant can secure an allotment in a PM MITRA park. Allotment is decided by the SPV board against its published criteria.

How to check your application status

PM MITRA has no single central portal where a company can log in and track a file, because land allotment and Competitiveness Incentive Support (CIS) claims are both handled by the individual park SPV, not by the Ministry of Textiles. What "checking status" means depends on which stage an applicant is at.

If you have submitted a land allotment proposal to a park SPV:

1. Go back to the same office you applied through, usually the state industrial development corporation acting as master developer (for example, MPIDC for the Dhar park). Most SPVs do not run a public tracking portal for individual applications; status is confirmed by the SPV's project office directly.
2. Ask for the file reference number you were given at submission, and quote it in any follow-up call, letter or email so the SPV can pull the correct file rather than searching by company name alone.
3. Expect the update in stages, not a single yes/no. A proposal typically moves through internal scrutiny, a site visit or presentation to the SPV board, in-principle allotment, and then execution of the lease deed once the allotment fee and other dues are paid. Ask specifically which stage the file is at, since "under process" can mean any of these.
4. Follow up through the state textile or industries department if the SPV project office is unresponsive, since the state government holds majority ownership in every park SPV and can escalate internally.

If you have already been allotted land and are pursuing a Competitiveness Incentive Support claim:

1. CIS is claimed from the SPV once production has started, not before, so there is nothing to "check" on a CIS claim until the unit is commissioned and generating turnover.
2. Submit the claim with a certified turnover statement for the relevant period, and get a written acknowledgement of receipt from the SPV; that acknowledgement, not a portal ticket, is the applicant's proof that a claim is on file.
3. Track disbursement through the SPV's finance or accounts section, since CIS is paid out of the Rs 300 crore fund earmarked for that specific park and disbursement timing depends on how many units in that park are claiming in the same cycle.

If you are a state government tracking DCS release for the park itself, this is handled through the Ministry of Textiles' project monitoring for that specific park rather than any citizen-facing channel, and is coordinated between the state nodal department and the Ministry.

Because there is no company-facing online tracker for this scheme, the safest practice for any applicant is to keep a written record: the date of submission, the file or reference number, the name of the official the file was submitted to, and a copy of every follow-up communication. A phone call alone leaves no trail if the file is later said to be missing.

Common reasons for rejection

Rejections and stalled files under PM MITRA arise mostly at the SPV land-allotment stage and at the CIS claim stage, and are almost always tied to one of the following:

• Land parcel not contiguous or not encumbrance-free. This is the most common reason a state's own site proposal fails at the outset. Since the finalised sites are now fixed, this reason no longer applies to new site proposals, but the same defect can resurface inside a park if a company's requested plot overlaps land under dispute or already provisionally held by another applicant. Fix: get the SPV to confirm the specific plot is clear of any competing claim before submitting a detailed proposal.
• Detailed project report inconsistent with the applicant's own financials. If the proposed investment, land requirement or projected employment in the DPR is not supported by the audited financial statements submitted alongside it, the SPV's scrutiny committee will flag the file rather than reject it outright, and it stalls. Fix: have the DPR figures checked against the latest audited balance sheet before submission, and explain any gap (for example, planned fresh equity or a term loan sanction letter) in the covering note.
• Line of manufacturing does not fit the park's designated activity mix. Each park is planned around specific segments of the textile value chain (spinning, weaving, processing, garmenting) and its common infrastructure, such as the CETP capacity, is sized accordingly. A proposal for an activity the park's infrastructure was not designed to support, particularly one with an effluent load the CETP cannot handle, is a real ground for rejection. Fix: confirm with the SPV in writing, before finalising a DPR, that the proposed activity fits the park's zoning and effluent-handling capacity.
• Missing or expired statutory documents. GST registration, PAN and company incorporation certificates that are missing, mismatched with the applicant's legal name, or not current are a routine cause of delay at the scrutiny stage. Fix: verify every document is in the current legal name of the applying entity and not past any renewal date before the file goes in.
• CIS claimed before production has actually started, or turnover statement not certified. A claim submitted without a certified turnover statement, or before the unit is actually commissioned and producing, will be returned by the SPV rather than processed. Fix: commission the unit and generate at least one certified period of turnover before filing the CIS claim, and use a chartered accountant's certification rather than an internal management statement.
• Assuming the Ministry of Textiles can override an SPV decision. Some applicants escalate a rejected or stalled file directly to the Ministry expecting it to instruct the SPV to allot land. The Ministry sets scheme guidelines and releases Development Capital Support to the SPV, but day-to-day allotment decisions rest with the SPV board against its own published criteria. Fix: exhaust the SPV's own review or appeal process, and route escalation through the state industrial development corporation or state textile department, which sit on the SPV board, rather than the Ministry directly.