All India Powerloom Board:
- The All India Powerloom Board was first constituted as an advisory board in 1981. It was reconstituted for a period of two years in 2013.
- It had representatives of central and state governments, Powerloom Federation and was headed by the Union minister of textiles.
- The decision to disband the boards follows an assessment that they failed to impact policy-making and became vehicles of “political patronage”
