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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
The other problems related to yarn is the continuous rise in the price of it, and this is because of the closing down of mills in the cooperative sector; As a result hank yarn has to be bought from far off places which have led to the increase in the prices of yarn.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
This raw material comes from the mills and therefore handlooms are dependent on mills for yarn supply. This is a major problem because handlooms sector can be rely upon the supply of such yarn only to the extent that it is surplus to the requirement of the mills. The mills firstly use yarn for their requirement completely and then make supplies to the handlooms sector only out of surplus. The shortage of yarn is a major problem and is always ignored by the government.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
Raw material is very important input which determines the cost of production of handlooms products. The main raw material which is being used in handloom weaving is Yarn. “The Fact Finding Committee” clearly indicated that, the cost of Yarn varies from 50 to 80 percent of the total cost of production depending upon the type of fabric to be woven. Thus the availability of yarn of the required quality at a reasonable price is a primary and necessary condition for development of industry
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
The current problems that are being faced by the industry can be elaborated by following issues - 5.1 Problem Related to Raw Material 5.2 Problem related to Finance 5.3 Problem of Marketing 5.3.1 Competition from Power loom Sector 5.3.2 Lack of information to the weavers 5.3.3 Lack of demand oriented products 5.3.4 Failure of UPICA and U.P. Handlooms 5.4 Obsolete Technology 5.5 Poverty of the Weavers 5.6 Improper function of Cooperative Societies
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
Some other problems are also prevailing in Handloom in industry, which is found in the field observation by researcher and explored by some new studies regarding the problems of handloom.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
If the Handloom industry is to be developed, it is necessary to deal with its weaknesses, which have led to the decline of this sector. According to some studies regarding handloom industry, most of the problems are the chronic one, like Inadequate supply of raw material, lack of institutional financial support, technological lag, problem related to marketing, indebtedness and poverty of handloom workers etc.
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Bisathi Bharath 6 years 4 months ago
Improving productivity of sector through training, skill building and managerial capabilities and through retention of work force.
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