Handloom on course downhill; jobs at stake
Updated: May 10, 2014 03:45:07pm
Mumbai, May 10 (KNN) The handloom sector which employs more than 4.2 million weavers and other workers stays on course downhill even as the overall textile sector is showing signs of growth.
Airing concerns over the issue, Textile Secretary, Zohra Chatterji said here yesterday, “In the overall textile scenario, which has been recording growth of 5 per cent despite the general slowdown in other sectors of the economy, handloom has been showing negative growth. So, this is a cause of serious concern.”
The meet was organised by the National Handloom Development Corporation under the aegis of Development Commissioner for Handlooms and supported by National Textile Corporation for establishing market linkages and capacity building.
Chatterji said the challenge was how to arrest the decline and preserve the tradition of the exquisite weaving which only handlooms can produce.
“So, we thought that there has to be a way that the incremental margins, available on handlooms (what the market commands and gives for it), has to percolate down to the weaver in terms of increase in wages which they get because other options such as even MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) are available now,” she said. (KNN Bureau)
Airing concerns over the issue, Textile Secretary, Zohra Chatterji said here yesterday, “In the overall textile scenario, which has been recording growth of 5 per cent despite the general slowdown in other sectors of the economy, handloom has been showing negative growth. So, this is a cause of serious concern.”
The meet was organised by the National Handloom Development Corporation under the aegis of Development Commissioner for Handlooms and supported by National Textile Corporation for establishing market linkages and capacity building.
Chatterji said the challenge was how to arrest the decline and preserve the tradition of the exquisite weaving which only handlooms can produce.
“So, we thought that there has to be a way that the incremental margins, available on handlooms (what the market commands and gives for it), has to percolate down to the weaver in terms of increase in wages which they get because other options such as even MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) are available now,” she said. (KNN Bureau)
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