Related Keywords: around forty four lakh Handloom weavers, cluster approach, Development Commissioner Handloom, ensure more earnings, Handlooms sector, marketing high value quality handloom products, new strategy for promoting production, NSFDC signs MoU, part of textile industry, second largest economic activity, three lakh ninety thousand Scheduled Caste Weavers
Handlooms Sector is a part of Textile Industry, the second largest economic activity after agriculture with around 44 lakh Handloom weavers in the country of which 3.90 lakh are Scheduled Caste Weavers. Under the cluster approach, new strategy for promoting production and marketing of high value quality handloom products shall be adopted to ensure more earnings of the Scheduled Caste Handloom Weavers.