President Kalam calls for empowerment of handloom sector
13 Dec '05
3 min read
Empowering Handloom weavers Some of the problems experienced by Handloom weavers are the availability of Yarn material and availability of the markets against the competition from power looms. The advantage for our nation is the potential of handloom sector in providing employment for large number of people in the household and self managed cooperative societies spread across the country. This type of household small enterprises, I have seen in Manipur and Assam.
Every member of the house weaves and wears their products. Also, if the handloom cottage industry is properly empowered, it has a potential to become a remunerative employment generator. In spite of competition from power looms, the handloom products are liked due to its unique quality, texture and uniqueness of design. Following are the suggestions for empowering the handloom sector in the country within next five years:
a. Creation of exclusive design centres to promote handloom products with inbuilt know how from the fashion design centres of the country. Design centres can be established in all the regions where handloom work is predominant. Design centres can be created on the lines of Tiruppur Garment design centres.
b. Generation of export and national market through proper business development practices and aggressive advertisement.
c. Elevating the skill of the weavers and upgrading the looms and the processes taking into account, the environmental needs and the international market demand.
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