Indian Handloom Sector

At the village level, next to the Agriculture, Handlooms Sector is providing major percentage of direct and indirect employment in India. The Handloom industry is facing the competition in its own way irrespective of lack of innovative response from the Government and excessive undue interest shown by the non governmental organizations.  No one required to take the credit for the upbeat in the Handloom sector! The demand is coming because of the change in the tastes of the people, their likes and dislikes and most importantly the quality the weaver is maintaining.  

There is a certain level of increase due to the various financial assistance schemes and implementation of various developmental schemes this has resulted in tenfold increase in the production of handloom fabrics.

25% of the total cloth produced in the country belongs to Handlooms. And Government has doubled its promotional campaign and assistance to help directly the weaver, to improve the skills by getting involved in the areas of :

(a) input support
(b) employment generation programmes
(c) modernization and upgradation of technology
(d) market support
(e) welfare measures
(f) publicity.
You will be looking at the various areas of Handloom sector in the coming pages.