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Weavers service centre to get makeover

Updated: Aug 07, 2013 05:36:06pm
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Mumbai, Aug 7 (KNN) The Weavers’ Service Centre for handloom plans a facelift in terms of technology and is keen to acquire various machineries and equipment to enhance quality and production of handlooms.

The centre which comes under the purview of the office of the Development Commissioner of Handlooms wants to put in place a mechanism for textiles testing, designing, processing, computers and its peripherals, printers, CATD software and other related items to improve both weaving techniques and appliances used in weaving.

The Weavers Service Centre works for the facilitation and promotion of weavers through skill and technological upgradation and product development.

Handloom weaving provides direct and indirect employment to more than 30 lakh weavers.  In fact, handloom production is the largest economic activity second only to agriculture in India. Handlooms contribute nearly 23 per cent of the total cloth produced in the country.

The centre wants to innovate and develop designs, motifs, patterns and prints, via in-house skills, on a regular basis, through new machinery and equipment. 

Handloom weaving constitutes one of the richest and most vibrant aspects of the Indian cultural heritage, the sector constituting an integral part of rural and semi-rural livelihood. 

Further, the sector has an advantage of being less capital intensive and highly labours intensive with flexibility of small production.  It is open to innovations and adaptable to market requirements. 

Development Commissioner (Handlooms) office is assisted by 25 WSCs function across the country.  Weavers’ Service Centres play a pivotal role in skill up-gradation, capacity building and disseminating the technological interventions towards reducing drudgery among handloom weavers and better productivity, thereby improving earning of the weavers. 

WSCs also sponsor weavers in various trade fairs and expos to help them in establishing direct market linkages. (KNN/SD)                                      
 
 

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