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Union Textiles Minister Santosh Gangwar on Friday at a press conference talking about the Textile Ministry’s performance in the past two years said that under the scheme for integrated textile parks (SITP) implemented to stimulate development of infrastructure, 24 new textile parks have been sanctioned in the last two years, facilitating investment of Rs 4,500 crore and generating employment for 66,000 people.

Related Keywords: common facility center, fast growing cottage industry, financial assistance, Govt of Manipur, handloom cooperative societies, handloom sector, Handloom weavers, highest concentration of weavers, highest concentration on possession of loom, new loom for loomless, reform and restructuring package, skill upgradation, under DDHPY scheme

Handloom is the most important and fast growing cottage industry in the state Manipur having highest concentration of weavers and also highest concentration on the possession of loom in the country. With the above potential, various promotional, development and welfare schemes has be implemented for the better earning and wellbeing of weavers of Manipur.

Related Keywords: facing major challenges, handloom sector, major portion of state population, migrating to bigger cities, textile and handloom officials, training on a strategy to motivate handloom workers, two day workshop, weaver giving up profession

A major portion of the State’s population is into handloom business after agriculture. As the handloom sector is facing a major challenge as weavers are giving up the profession and migrating to bigger citities.

A two-day workshop for officials of Textile and Handloom Department of the State Government has been organized in the Capital on Wednesday. The workshop aims at training the Department officials engaged in the sector of Government schemes and skill development.

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Government of Assam state is taking up a lot of initiatives to improve the socio-economic condition of weavers, including creating the right market linkage for weavers. This was announced by the Minister for Handloom, Textiles and Cultural Affairs Bismita Gogoi.

Related Keywords: apparel export, duty free entitlement, global trade, handloom sector, Indian textile industry, integrated textile parks, largest contributing sector, lion share, organized and unorganized sector, RMG, Textile Minister, total export basket

The Indian textile industry plays an important role of the largest contributing sectors in the country’s exports by contributing nearly 13.25% to the country’s total exports basket with exports to the tune of $41.57 billion (about Rs. 2,65,100 crore) in FY2013-14.

Of which the Ready Made Garments (RMG) contributes to a lion’s share of global trade with a chunk of 55% in the total exports. India is ranked sixth with exports to the tune of $16 billion, which is around 40% of the country’s textiles exports.

Related Keywords: DC Handlooms office, e-tailer Flipkart, Flipkart, handloom sector, MoU, online marketing platform, online pilot project, textile mega-cluster, Varanasi, weavers of Kashi, Weavers Service Centre

First meeting has been organized September 17 where e-tailer Flipkart officials will be interacting with the weavers of Kashi to understand each other and also discuss various issues related to handloom sector, said Tapan Sharma, deputy director, Weavers' Service Centre (WSC).

This will be the first meeting after an MoU signed between the e-tailer Flipkart and the development commissioner (handlooms) under the Ministry of Textiles to start a pilot project in Varanasi wherein the e-tailer will source handloom materials from local weavers.

Related Keywords: bank, fix sub target, handloom sector, handloom weaver, lending, Textile Ministry, weavers' credit cards

The Textiles Ministry, Santosh Gangwar to urge its Finance counterpart to fix a sub-target for the handloom sector under priority sector lending as banks not keen to sanction loans for the handloom sector.

Ministry of Textiles has been regularly pursuing the matter with Ministry of Finance and banks to extend loans to handloom weavers and their organisation as a regular agenda of state-level bankers' committee.

Related Keywords: budgetary allocation for textile, handloom sector, import duty on ethylene, import duty on propylene, readymade garment, Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme, Textile budget, textile clusters, Textile Minister, TUFS, Union budget 2014-15

The Narendra Modi government, which has sought 60 months from the Indian electorate to bring good days, in its first budget exuded its intent to kick start the investment cycle to nurse India's ailing economy back to good health. Coming amid high expectations from the textile and garment industry, the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his maiden Union Budget 2014-15, charmed the industry participants with an array of encouraging proposals.

Related Keywords: artisans, handicraft sector, handloom sector, Sant Kabir Awards, Shilp Guru Awards, Weavers

The Indian President, Pranab Mukherjee in his address after presenting the National Awards, Shilp Guru Awards and Sant Kabir Awards to weavers and artisans for the year 2011 in New Delhi on Tuesday said that an intensive and collective step at multiple levels needs to be taken to safeguard the future of handicrafts and handlooms sectors.
 

Related Keywords: handloom sector, Revival Package, Textile Ministry

The government to improve the low prevailing efficiency of handloom sector plan to implement a revival, reform and restructuring package. Handloom sector with 27-28 lakh handloom household units and around 43 lakh handloom weavers working is able to contribute only 11% of the total cloth production, thus needs attention.

The Indian Textile Ministry has come up with a proposal aimed to reduce the debt overhang face by the handloom sector and help it grow.