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Handloom scheme for NE weavers fails to take off
Assam Tribune | Guwahati, March 2
The North-East accounts for about 66.75 per cent of the total looms (13.96 lakh out of 20.91 lakh units) and more than 50 per cent of the weavers (21.75 lakh out of 43.31 lakh weavers in the country).
And despite the fact that most of the weavers in the North-East continue to work on traditional loin looms on individual basis bereft of institutional support for raw materials, finance, marketing, training and landholding, an ambitious project aimed at upgrading domestic handloom units into commercially viable ones has failed to materialize even after it was recommended by various State governments of the North-East, Ministry of Textiles, Ministry of DoNER, and other experts and committees within and outside the Planning Commission.
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