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Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Ritabrata Banerjee has written to the Central government, asking for its involution connected the “serious crisis” successful the West Bengal raw jute industry. He wrote to Union Textile Minister Giriraj Singh connected Thursday (January 1, 2026) and said that the “economic and societal emergency” successful the jute industry was increasing rapidly and needed immediate attention.
“The contiguous situation—characterised by acute scarcity of earthy jute, utmost terms volatility, curtailment of mill operations and nonaccomplishment of employment—has not arisen suddenly. It is the cumulative result of argumentation shortcomings implicit the past fewer years, peculiarly the lack of a credible stabilisation framework for earthy jute and irregular request planning under the Packaging Commodities Supply Order (PCSO) and Gunny Trade Policy (GTP),” Mr. Ritabrata’s missive to Mr. Singh stated.
He further added that though Minimum Support Price (MSP) procurement was done during debased terms years successful 2023-24, no further efforts were made to backmost up the concern through stabilising mechanisms.
Mr. Ritabrata who besides serves arsenic the president of the National Trinamool Trade Union Congress said that the deficiency of wide norms for reserve quantities, deficiency of merchandise triggers announcements, and nary rotation argumentation deepened the situation further. “Consequently, MSP procurement absorbed distress income by farmers but failed to forestall the contiguous scarcity and terms shock,” his letter stated.
He said that these factors culminated into a situation situation where mills are closing down due to unaffordable earthy worldly costs and yet thousands of jute mill workers are losing regular employment. This has besides led to jute farmers being under distress of facing uncertainty over sales.
The Rajya Sabha MP called for contiguous enactment against this situation to assistance some jute farmers and mill workers survive. He called for a wide explanation of reserve norms, transparent merchandise triggers, and time-bound banal rotation linked to MSP procurement.
“Timely finalisation of prices and avoidance of request compression that destabilises both farmers and mills. Faster procurement processes, wider reach, improved grading support, and assured outgo timelines,” Mr. Ritabrata stated.
He added that without contiguous involution this tin pb to semipermanent structural harm to the manufacture and pb to imperishable harm of resources which tin further impact the whole packing manufacture successful the state which is heavy babelike connected jute.
