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Related Keywords: buy cotton directly from market, Central purchasing committee, Directorate of Handlooms and Textiles, ensure quality and transparency, provide to government textile mills, replace private agencies, sale of the yarn produced, similar committee will be established, to be formed in Kerala

A central purchasing committee in Kerala to be formed which will replace private agencies and buy cotton directly from the market to provide it to government textile mills. This will ensure quality and transparency. A similar committee will be established for the sale of the yarn produced, said an official with the Directorate of Handlooms and Textiles.

Hence, Kerala Government textile mills will engage in the centralized purchase of cotton to ensure transparency and provide raw material before opening the mills

Related Keywords: assure work for three hundred days, bring back glory to ailing traditional sector, coming with a revival package, Directorate of Handlooms and Textiles, handloom, initial phase, Kerala state government, rope in traditional weavers

Kerala state government has come out with a revival package to bring back glory to its ailing traditional sector, Handloom. According to officials with the Directorate of Handlooms and Textiles, some 3,400 traditional weavers to be roped in during the initial phase will be assured work for 300 days.

The traditional weavers, who had been forced to go in search of greener pastures owing to lack of work and poor wages, would be wooed back and cooperative societies that closed shop would be persuaded to resume functioning.

Related Keywords: cotton cultivation, Directorate of Handlooms and Textiles, export-oriented facility, Fifteen entrepreneurs, infrastructure facilities, Padalur, SIPCOT, Textile Park

The Perambalur district administration is in the process of handing over 40.35 hectares of land for Textile Park coming up on Tiruchi-Chennai National Highway at Padalur to the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) – the implementing agency of the project.

Perambalur district, a major cotton growing district stands to benefit from the textile park.

The agency has written to the State government for getting administrative sanction for the project. After getting the sanction, SIPCOT would provide infrastructure facilities to the entrepreneurs.