Hyderabad, May 29 (KNN) Giving huge business opportunity to the powerloom weavers in Sircilla town of Rajanna district in Telangana, the state government has asked them to produce Rs 200 crore worth Bathukamma  sarees.

The sarees will be distributed by the State government to women below the poverty line during the Bathukamma festival.

Earlier, the powerloom weavers of this textile town were in the news for high suicide rates due to unemployment.

The government had also given orders for school uniforms under the Rajiv Vidya Mission as well as bedsheets and blankets for hospitals to them.

According to a media report, Handlooms Development Commissioner Shailaja Ramayyar met with the members of the Mutually Aided Co-operative Societies (MACS), owners of small-scale powerloom industries and other officials last weeky to inform them about the government’s decision to place the order for one crore Bathukamma sarees. Collector D Krishna Bhaskar and others were also present.

The one crore Bathukamma sarees would be produced on 20,000 powerlooms including MACS, small scale industries and Textile park.

She directed the MACSs, SSI and individual powerloom weavers owning looms and the Textile park to produce the sarees within three months and supply them August 15.