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Textiles Minister inaugurates training programme for handloom weavers in Odisha

| | Jun 25, 2016, at 03:27 am
New Delhi, June 24 (IBNS) Union Textiles Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar inaugurated on Friday a 45-day long skill upgradation training programme for Scheduled Caste handloom weavers belonging to Sohlela Block in Bargarh district of Odisha.

In the function held in the village Birjam, the Minister also gave away the certificates to pass outs of the first Handloom Entrepreneur training course.

The Minister also handed over the sanction letters to handloom weavers under Pradhan Mantri Weaver MUDRA Scheme.

He also visited an exhibition of exquisite Ikat handloom products prepared by awardees and producers registered under India Handloom Brand.

Speaking on the occasion, Gangwar said that the Central Government is implementing several new initiatives under the guidance of  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which are aimed at raising earnings of handloom weavers to Rs. 500 per day.

He also said that the Government is giving special priority to handloom weavers belonging to Scheduled Caste. Out of more than 600 weavers who will be benefited by the block-level cluster project in Sohela, 90% weavers belong to the SC category.

The Minister added that the Ministry of Textiles has requested State Governments to send projects of blocks that have concentration of SC weavers, on priority.

Bargarh area of Odisha is a large cluster of handloom weaving and is famous for tie and dye Ikat weaves. It has produced a large number of national awardees.

Block level cluster project is the new approach adopted by the Government for comprehensive development of handloom weavers. Under this, a project can avail assistance up to two crore rupees, for activities such as skill upgradation, loom upgradation,  work sheds, professional assistance from a designer, common facility centre, dye house and a raw material depot. Government has sanctioned 228 such projects in the last one year, 19 of which are in Odisha. Handloom weavers receive a wage compensation of Rs. 210 per day from the Government, during the training period.

Handloom Entrepreneur course is a pioneering initiative of the Ministry of Textiles which gives four-month long intensive training to young handloom weavers, grooming them to become successful entrepreneurs.

Training is given in areas like marketing, e-commerce, quality control and financial management. The course complies with National Skill Qualification Framework and assessment is done by authorised assessors of Textile Sector Skill Council. Sixty such young handloom entrepreneurs have completed training in Indian Institutes of Handloom Technology at Bargarh, Varanasi and Salem.
 

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