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Related Keywords: designing of carpets and marketing, government approves DPR, hand woven Banarasi style carpets, little recognition, made since middle of 1980s, Malgaon Handloom Cluster Development Society, Malgaon village in Kaliaganj block, project will start, to set up a mega carpet cluster, training for weavers, West Bengal directorate of textiles

The West Bengal directorate of textiles has decided to set up a mega carpet cluster at Malgaon village in Kaliaganj block of the district where hand-woven Banarasi style carpets are being made since the middle of 1980s. Weavers in a remote village in North Dinajpur district of West Bengal have been stitching these carpets for around three decades, but with little recognition.

Related Keywords: absence of infrastructure, Centre’s Integrated Handloom Cluster Development Scheme, Cluster Development Programme, design development, designer, handloom cluster, Odisha textile sector, SADHAC, training for weavers

Every handloom cluster must have at least one designer to look into design development and offer training to weavers on choosing the right design and colours, keeping in mind the target market. Currently, most of the handloom clusters in Odisha are functioning without designers.

Odisha’s textile sector facing trouble finding qualified designers as the sector has remained a problem in the absence of infrastructure for weavers and textile designers for design development.