Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002 |
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Industry & Economy
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Textiles TN Govt announces sops for weavers Our Bureau
CHENNAI, July 29 THE Tamil Nadu Government has announced a series of measures to provide relief to weavers, tackle the unemployment problem faced by the 25,000 weavers earlier employed under the free saree and dhoti scheme and earmark funds to enable off take of handloom textiles, lying with the cooperative societies. According to a Government press release, it has sanctioned Rs 25 crore to purchase the stockpile of handloom products manufactured under the free saree and dhoti scheme. The stocks of handloom textiles available with the cooperative societies, which include over 18 lakh sarees and nine lakh dhotis, would be procured and sold through the fair price shops at a concessional rate. A set of one dhoti and saree would be sold at Rs 70 (dhoti at Rs 30 and saree Rs 40) to the family cardholders. A part of the 45-lakh dhotis and 45-lakh sarees procured by Cooptex, the Tamil Nadu Handloom Weavers' Cooperative Society, would be distributed free to the old-age pensioners. Twenty lakh sarees and four lakh dhotis would be distributed free and the rest would be sold at the concessional rates through fair price shops. A team of Ministers would oversee measures to provide alternate employment to the 25,000 weavers earlier employed under the scheme. The Government will also supply 20 kg rice to each of the weavers' family at a total cost of Rs 60 lakh. Over 6000 weavers would be employed under the scheme to distribute free dhotis and sarees to old-age pensioners. The textile requirements of the departments of Social Welfare, School Education and other Government departments would be met through handlooms, thus generating employment to 4,000 weavers. The Government would facilitate loans from co-operative and commercial banks to weavers opting to purchase modernised handlooms and power looms. Weavers could avail the Rs 7,500 subsidy and loan scheme under the Swarna Jayanthi Gram Swarojgar Yojana. The Government would sanction Rs one lakh as subsidy to weavers who come together as a team to operate handlooms and power looms. Further, the Government has issued instructions to Cooptex to hold 95 fairs and exhibitions to expedite sale of Rs 400 crore worth of silk and handloom clothes held in stocks. Three-year-old stocks would be auctioned off, and stocks that have been held up for one or two years would be sold at a concession of 45 per cent and 55 per cent, respectively.
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