Hyderabad, Apr 29 (KNN) KT Rama Rao, Textiles Minister of Telangana on Friday asked the officials to prepare proposals for development of handloom clusters at Narayanpet, Gadwal , Dubbaka, Kodakandla, Mahadevpur and Kothakota etc.

For establishing a handloom museum in Hyderabad, he also asked the officials to submit proposals.

He advised the textile officials to visit Tirupur to study the Tirupur model and develop such clusters in Telangana.

The minister said this will help fibre to fashion linkage might develop and help backward and forward linkages.

The minister directed the officials to improve the ongoing schemes, especially Chenetha Mitra Scheme, by simplifying them and making them user-friendly. 

The minister asked the officials to celebrate National Handloom Day (Aug 7) in a big way.  (KNN Bureau)