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Raghuvir Group is among Ahmedabad's top three private sector textile houses. The interests of the Group range from Textile, Real Estate, Infrastructure and Warehousing. Raghuvir Group plans to double its garments and home textile capacities for which it will make an investment of Rs 10 crore.

The investment will take its garments and home textiles capacities to 2 million units and 2 million sets, respectively, to support its subsidiary Raghuvir Lifestyle's foray into offline retail.

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Government units, especially textiles as one of their major brand building exercise and with India high on digitalization are tying up with ecommerce platforms to get a wider customer base globally. Many weaves from different states will now be made available on ecommerce platforms like Flipkart, eBay, Amazon, Snapdeal and others.

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Snapdeal, India’s largest online megastore has teamed up with Government of Odisha’s Orissa State Handloom Weavers Co-operative Society Ltd. and Odisha State Handicraft Corporation Ltd. to promote traditional Odia crafts.

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The Union Government which is keen to promote cotton fibre and handloom products is lent a helping hand by the online retailers viz. Flipkart,Amazon,Snapdeal.

The Andhra Pradesh Government is holding discussions with these plugged-in retailers to sell handloom products on their website.

This will help in introducing an online platform to the workmanship of the handloom weavers as well as recognition to the ancient tradition, which is one of the prime reasons of the Union Government backing these weavers.

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Gujarat will be the first state to strike deals with commercial online portals to encourage its handicrafts. As the Gujarat State Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation (GSHHDC) are in advanced stage of entering into an agreements with Flipkart and Snapdeal.

Gujarat handloom and handicrafts like Patolas, Bandhanis, hand-blocked printing and variety of products from the desert district of Kutch under the brand name Garvi Gurjari will be sold online.