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Vision to develop a Strong & Vibrant Handloom Sector

Start Date :
Mar 03, 2020
Last Date :
Jun 03, 2020
23:45 PM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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The O/o Development Commissioner (Handlooms), Ministry of Textiles, Government of India (GoI), is working for development of Handloom Sector with a vision to develop a strong, ...

The O/o Development Commissioner (Handlooms), Ministry of Textiles, Government of India (GoI), is working for development of Handloom Sector with a vision to develop a strong, vibrant Handloom Sector to provide sustainable employment to Handloom weavers. The overall goal of this office can be understood by following points:

Mission
• To make the Handloom sector self sustainable for inclusive growth.
• Empowerment of the weavers through technological upgradation.
• Focused, flexible and holistic approach to meet the challenges of domestic and global market.
• Brand building in global and domestic markets.
• Easy access to raw material at reasonable prices.

Objective
• To ensure overall development of the Handloom, including welfare of handloom weavers.
• To provide new upgraded looms and accessories to handloom weavers.
• To provide subsidized yarn in the clusters areas.
• Market orientation by associating entrepreneurs, designers, and professionals for marketing, designing and managing the production.
• To facilitate process of credit from financial institutions/banks.

Functions
• To develop the handloom clusters and empower the weavers with a provision of new looms, CFC, Yarn Depot, buyer–seller meet.
• To set up Yarn Depots to provide easy access to quality yarns at subsidized rates to be set up in the HL clusters.
• To provide credit facility at low interest rates for production and marketing activities.
• Developing capacity for developing fashion and market directed design and products.
• Developing market for Handloom products by creating strong brand and involving private sector in marketing and export.

Handloom Craft Village (New Activity) recently started.

For integrated sustainable development of handloom with tourism & culture, this is a new initiative of this office with the help of State Governments concerned. 5 villages are being developed as “Tourist handloom village” are as under:
1. Sharan, Distt. Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
2. Kanihama, Budgam, Srinagar
3. Rampur, Bodh Gaya, Bihar
4. Borjuri, Golaghat, Assam
5. Kovalam, Thiruanathpuram, Kerala
 
Award to Handloom Weavers:
To encourage the Handloom weavers who are doing extraordinary job by producing unique products on handloom, this office is conferring Sant Kabir Award, National Award and National Merit Certificates. These Awards are being conferred every year by this office. These Awards encourage the individual weavers to develop & produce products of high quality. Preference is also being given in several marketing activities like expos being organised at International, National and Regional levels. The last date for inviting application for “Year-2018” has been extended to 21st March, 2020. Interested applicants may forward their entries through this forum by providing their basic details in the application form provided, so that our field offices (Weavers Service Centres) team may contact applicant for further assistance.

The purpose of this white-paper is to solicit public inputs for ongoing activities of this office as well as new thoughts/ideas and inputs. We would like to adopt a participatory process to prepare this strategy and seek perspectives from a broad spectrum of stakeholders including government officials in the Centre and the States, policy researchers, entrepreneurs, technology developers, as well as Civil Society.

The last date for submissions on this forum is 3rd June, 2020.

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Ardhendu Behera
Ardhendu Behera 6 years 3 months ago
The new revised foreign policies, globalization is also responsible for the current condition of cottage industry. The handloom weavers are facing constant competition from the power looms. These workers have given their whole life to stitching and knitting. The skill that they possess is just unmatchable and as citizens we need to support them as it is also one among our 11 fundamental duties viz Article 51A (e) common brotherhood.
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Ardhendu Behera 6 years 3 months ago
Cottage industry is considered for its enormous potential of providing employment. The employment may have increased in this industry but the income of the people has definitely decreased as the middlemen offer low prices to the manufacturers but take heavy chunks of money from the buyers.
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Ardhendu Behera 6 years 3 months ago
Self help groups reinforces the cottage industries as the women employed in the cottage industries are the members of the self-help group and they can get financial assistance at low interest rate which is a great boon for them.
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Ardhendu Behera 6 years 3 months ago
Cottage Industry is often characterized by its enormous potential for employment generation and the person getting employed is basically regarded as a self-employed one. It has been empirically found out that Cottage Industry has given economic independence to the women in the developing as well as developed countries. Cottage industries involve all the family members contribution for the development of the family.
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Ardhendu Behera 6 years 3 months ago
Cottage Industry cannot be considered as the mass producer of products. It faces major risks from medium or large industries which demand huge amount of capital investment for all types of hi-end technologies.
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Ardhendu Behera 6 years 3 months ago
India is a supplier of high quality leather to the global market. The Indian tanning industry can produce around 10% of the global demand. This industry employs around 2.5 million people and is considered one of the major export earners for India. The major leather producing regions in India are Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. Metal has always been used in India to make figurines, utensils, jewelry.
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Ardhendu Behera 6 years 3 months ago
My country is well known for its large number of traditional cottage industries, but with the emerging of industrialization our cottage industries facing a tough challenge. As industries utilize all sorts of cost effective technologies which enable them to supply the products at low price. However, our government has taken steps to save cottage industries and they now play an important part in contributing to the economy of the country.
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Ardhendu Behera 6 years 3 months ago
The products supplied by the Cottage Industry thus face risk of extinction if they don‟t receive enough financial or other form of support from the government. It promotes women entrepreneurship and empowers women which is very much crucial in our nation to build up a strong public opinion.
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Ardhendu Behera 6 years 3 months ago
The State shall endeavor to promote cottage industries on an individual or co operative basis in rural areas under Article 43. The commodities produced by cottage industries are generally consumable and the technique used is traditional. Cottage industries are more prominent in the country sides where unemployment prevails. this industry helps by engaging surplus labour and thus enhances rural economy.
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VIVEK KUMAR SINGH_48
VIVEK KUMAR SINGH_48 6 years 3 months ago
There should be one click online portal to provide assistance and loans to youth interested in doing business in Handlooms sector ,without any bank guarantee, No bank in india gives loans under any govt scheme like startup india or mudra yojana unless the bank manager gets some bribe .Modiji you are the best prime minister , please look into this matter , please open an online portal which is directly handled by central government.
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