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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
Although the cooperatives can protect the rights of weavers and facilitate access the developmental schemes of government but in the state, these cooperatives became the centre of exploitation of govt. schemes and funds. The chairman of cooperative society, who is mostly the master weaver or trader, they take all the benefits and not provide any support to weavers
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
According to Handloom Directorate, Uttar Pradesh there is more than 5,000 co-operative societies, but the workers are not benefitting from societies. While as per 2009-10 handloom census, out of 110,542 handlooms only 8, 427 households have the membership of co-operative societies. It is clear that the large number of handloom weavers units remain outside the fold of the cooperatives.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
Improper Function of Co-operatives Societies: Co-operation is the best way for the development of decentralized industry like handloom, but unfortunately, it is not successful in the state due to multiple reasons such as improper financial support, politicization, lobbying for power and mismanagement of founds.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
The weavers, are involved with sector, mainly belong to backward caste, minority and down trodden section of the society. The poverty of the weavers also becomes a hurdle for the development of the handloom sector. Due to poverty, mostly weavers are illiterate and illiteracy is also a reason for their backwardness and unawareness about their welfare and development. Because of very low income, they are unable to live a good life, resulted their productivity reduces.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
Poverty of the Weavers: In the case of Uttar Pradesh the problem of poverty among the weavers is also a serious concern before the handloom sector. The handloom weavers have always suffered from acute poverty. Presently, weavers are facing severe livelihood crisis because of adverse government policies, globalization and the socio- economic conditions.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
only in weaving but dyeing process is also being processed in a very old method. Weavers manually dye at present and do not insure even coloring of the yarn over its entire length. With respect to change in the technology adopted by handloom weavers nothing has changed past five years
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
Even today the weavers are weaving on pit looms. Most of the weavers come from the disadvantaged sections of the society and lack of social capital has stopped them from moving ahead in the social ladder. Technology requires new education and more capital, both of which lack in the community
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
Obsolete Technology Technology improves productivity and quality of the products, but unfortunately handloom industry is technically a back ward sector due to many reasons. It is fact that new technology increased initial costs but due to lack of finance it has become a hurdle in the growth of production. In the field observation carried by researcher it is identified that in the case of change in type of loom nothing has changed over years.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
This led to over staffing in the office, resultant the total budget sanctioned for each corporation was barely enough to provide payments to the employers, and shortage of resources meant that other objectives of the corporations got neglected, the attitude of excessive staff was also indifferent towards consumers since they were quasi-government employers, and so sales did not register growth. All these factors resulted in high financial losses to each corporation.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
While U.P. Handloom Corporation aimed at facilitating individual weavers who were not members of societies. During the Starting phase both corporations facilitated both the co-operatives as well as the independent weavers. Unfortunately both corporations started developing problems due to political pressure on managing Directors of the corporations to employ people with political and other links.
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