Mumbai, Jan 29 (KNN) The Ministry of Textiles has signed an agreement with the country’s leading clothing and textiles players like Raymond, Welspun, Titan, Reliance Retail and the Sachin Tendulkar-promoted True Blue, to encourage procurement from the weavers directly.

Addressing an outreach programme called the Artisan Speak where these agreements were signed, Textile Minister Smriti Irani said the initiative aims at exploring the synergy between culture and textiles and the initiative will be extended to rest of the country.

Meanwhile, Textile Secretary Raghavendra Singh said All our schematic assistance including provision of loans, skilling, provision of yarns etc are aimed at lowering the cost of production and enhance the income of weavers.

He said the ministry is coming with QR coding post registration and pre-registration of all its weavers for geographical indication tags.