The investment requirement of clothing sector by 2012 will be Rs 21, 800 crore, and will create incremental employment for a 56.40 lakh workforce, of which 28.25 lakh will be semi-skilled, and 11.30 lakh unskilled. Though the Indian textiles industry has its inherent advantages, infrastructure bottlenecks are a prime area of concern. With a view to take advantage of the post Multi Fibre Arrangement scenario, the Apparel Parks for Exports Schemes (APES) and the Textiles Centre Infrastructure Development Scheme (TCIDS) were launched in 2002. The objective of APES was to create exclusive export zones of apparel manufacturing. TCIDS was to modernise and fill in the gaps in the existing infrastructure at existing major textiles centres, to remove the impediments to production. The performance of both Apparel Parks and TCIDS was restrained by the nature of assistance permitted. It was felt that there was a need to review both the schemes to examine the possibility for making provision for expeditious implementation of these schemes. Therefore, both the Schemes were subsumed into a new scheme called the 'Scheme for Integrated Textile Park' in 2005. These parks would incorporate facilities for spinning, sizing, texturing, weaving, processing, apparels and embellishments. This scheme is based on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model. 

During the Tenth Five Year Plan, 30 projects were sanctioned: Andhra Pradesh (4), Gujarat (7), Maharashtra (6), Tamil Nadu (6), Rajas than (4), Karnataka (1), Punjab (1) an<;l West Bengal (1). These parks are expected to be set up by 2008 with an additional investment of Rs 15,434.60 crore. These parks are likely to generate an annual production of Rs 23,600 crore, and will create more than half a million new jobs. Additional textiles parks will be set up by 2012. Some textile parks have come up well in a short time and in some, work is going on at snail's pace. And overall, still India has miles to go before the textile parks bring forth tangible results.