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Related Keywords: chinese fabric import, Commerce Ministry, local textile producer, MNREGA, Textile Ministry, Weavers

Government to look at ways to check flow of imported Chinese fabric into India as it wants to encourage local textile producers. The Textile Ministry has put forward the issue of increasing Chinese textiles import with the Commerce Ministry with an urge to stop this, said Textiles Minister Santosh Gangwar.
 
Responding to supplementaries, he said that to protect the interests of weavers; government is toying with the idea of linking them with MNREGA which provides 100 days of guaranteed work to people in rural areas.
 

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: hire purchase scheme, Indian weaving industry, Weavers

Union Ministry of Textiles to give a major fillip for modernization in the weaving sector a programme has been launched called the ‘Hire-Purchase Scheme’ in the revised restructured Technology Upgradation Scheme (RR-TUFS). A special purpose vehicle (SPV), promoted by a group of weavers, a large-scale textile manufacturer and a co-operative or an entrepreneur, will procure the machines and provide them on a hire-purchase basis to the weavers.

Lease rent attracts 12 per cent service tax, and this should be removed for the scheme so that the SPV can lease out the looms to the weavers.