Hyderabad, January 22: The state government is contemplating to bring forth a new legislation to curb the growth of bogus societies in the coming Assembly session which is likely to begin in the last week of February.
Speaking to reporters here today, handlooms and textiles minister P Shankar Rao said that several bogus and benami weavers welfare cooperative societies had availed themselves of huge loans from the state government corporations but did not repay them.
“If this continues, severe action would be taken against them by even invoking the provisions of the Revenue Recovery Act,” the minister said.
He expressed displeasure over Union minister for handlooms and textiles Dayanidhi Maran for implementing all the programmes only in Tamil Nadu.
“Though Panabaka Laxmi was also the minister for state with the same portfolio but she could not get Central schemes for the state,” Shankar Rao said.
He said he would meet AICC president Sonia Gandhi soon and bring to her notice the problems being faced by the textiles sector in the state.
–Agencies