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Related Keywords: e-commerce platform, Flipkart, furnishing, generate business, handloom and handicraft, home decor, marketing support services, seller become millionaires, SME training programs, SMEs, technology platform, working capital assistance

Flipkart, an E-commerce major, through its platform aims to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to generate business worth Rs 10 lakh (a million) this year. In fact, to encourage and enable sellers grow and expand their businesses, Flipkart are offering various initiatives/support like - workshops/sessions, SME training programs, working capital assistance, marketing support services like packaging, cataloging to sellers and through Investments in building a technology platform.

Handloom, handicrafts and local artifacts have emerged as prominent categories on their platform.

Related Keywords: handloom and handicraft, lack of fund, MGNREGA, Santosh Gangwar, take shape, textile mega-cluster, Textile Park, Union Minister of state for textile, UP weavers and artisans, various schemes

The Uttar Pradesh weavers and artisans to see good days as various schemes will start taking shape soon, said Union minister of state for textiles (independent charge) Santosh Kumar Gangwar here on Friday. There will be no lack or shortage of funds for handloom and handicrafts as the Central government is committed to uplift the living standard of handloom weavers and artisans.

Gangwar is also in talks with UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to develop the cultural complex as a centre of excellence and bring other projects like Textile Park to improve the sector.

Related Keywords: domestic manufacturing, generate employment, handloom and handicraft, Kutch, Ministry of textile, powerloom, Surat, Textile mega cluster

Finance minister Arun Jaitley in the Budget had announced setting up of eight textile mega clusters that including one each in Surat and Kutch with an initial investment of Rs 200 crore. The upcoming mega textile cluster in Kutch to focus completely on handloom and handicrafts while Surat textile mega cluster will focus on powerlooms, said textile commission Kiran Soni Gupta during her one-day visit to the city.