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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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Bisathi Bharath
Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
As a result of current Government involvement through monetary support and application of various progressive and well being schemes, this sector has been able to withstand race from the power loom and mill sectors.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
The Handloom sector shows a very significant role in the Indian ‘country’s economy. It is one of the chief monetary actions that providing direct occupation to over 68 lakhs persons are being engaged in weaving and allied activities
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
All of the above problems weaken the handloom sector. These problems are arising majorly due to the improper function of government organizations and stiff competition from power loom sector, the government and other organization related to handloom sector should deal with these problems for the development of handloom industry.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
The liberalization policy has not only impacted negatively to the handloom industry, some positive impacts also found such as opening up of markets has provided avenues for better markets in terms of export. And sector has benefitted at large, the production of handlooms has not reduced after the opening up the market at all India level. But the fact is that the weavers of this sector are not benefitted by this policy because wages not increased and their condition is deteriorating
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
. The trade liberalization led to a sudden increase in the prices of yarn, as well as till 1985, twenty two items of the textile industry were reserved for handloom sector which became 11 items after new policy came into effect and these eleven items violated by the power looms and mills.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
Negative Impact of Economic Reform: The Economic reform started in 1991 and pushed the liberalization of the textile industry initiated by the 1985 policy. One of the important aspects of this, which had immediate impact on the handlooms, was the liberalization of the expert of yarn and dyes.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
But the Act has not been implemented effectively. It’s non- implementation has encouraged Power loom imitation to flourish in the market. Find the other a major policy of the government was “Hank Yarn Obligation Order’ this policy requires the spinning mills to process 50 percent of their output in hank form to meet the need of the handlooms. This order was more often violated than adhered to.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
Ineffective Implementation of the Government Schemes: From the beginning the government started so many schemes for the survival of the handloom industry, but lack of proper checks and balances many schemes of the government have failed. For example, handloom Reservation Act 1985, under this Act, 22 (later reduced to 11) textile items have been reserved for the exclusive production by handloom.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
In Uttar Pradesh these societies are becoming defunct and the factor responsible for its failure, are improper financial assistance, government ignorance, corruption in the societies, illiteracy of the weavers, etc.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
The members of the cooperative society are also not satisfied with the facilities of it because it is clearly shown in the report of handloom census 2009-10 that only 27 handloom household of the total handloom households in across Uttar Pradesh have taken loan from the cooperative society.
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