Report of the Panel on Woollen Industry

The mills started in this period were the IndianWoollen Mills the WadiaWoollen Mills the Dharamsi Morarji Mills the Kaiser-i-Hind Woollen Mills the Maharani Woollen Mills and the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers. [...] Of these the first two were fitted out for the production of woollen and worsted fabrics the third for the manufacture of worsteds and the last three for the manufacture of woollens only. [...] As regards the woollen branch the Goverment of India considered that the recommendations of the Tariff Board were vitiated by the fact that a very important section of the industry had failed to tender any evidence before the Board about the cost of manufacture and the nature of the competition experienced by it. [...] These fibres will as a matter of fact play a very important part in the development of the Woollen Industry in future and could be classified as 'important semi-processed raw materials urgently needed for use by the Industry.' In view of the policy of the Government of India as expressed by the Hon'ble the Finance Member in his budget speech of February 1946 it is recommended that artificial fib [...] The war created a large demand for blankets and other woollen materials which the mill industry could not cope with on its own and the Supply Department diverted part of the demand to the handloom woollen industry The orders from the Supply Department and the increased demand from the civilian market for blankets tweeds rugs etc.