Related Keywords: handicraft, handloom, National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana, six textile mega-clusters, Textile Industry, Trade Facilitation Centre and a Crafts Museum
This budget, handloom industry gets a major push and the most important point was that it has identified handloom as handicrafts. In the past, it was recognized as a mass production tool and all policies were getting disturbed.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s announcement of setting up six textile mega-clusters, including one in Tamil Nadu, with a keen focus on reviving handloom will provide a the much-needed fillip to the industry.
