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Encourage Handloom

Kashmir Times. Dated: 6/26/2013 10:35:54 PM

Dear Editor,
Union government has been taking several steps to encourage handloom-sector in the country for which the government also imposes handloom-cess on excise-duty chargeable from mill-made cloth. But real encouragement to handloom-sector can be best given by making it compulsory for every licensed textile-mill to set up a handloom-unit in the mill-compound by making it compulsory to bring some minimum percentage of cloth woven on handloom as outcome of total production of the textile-mill. System will give automatic employment to handloom-weavers in the recognised corporate-sector. Cloth woven on handloom has some natural beauty which cannot be created by mill-produced cloth. With Indian garment-export facing stiff competition from countries like China and Pakistan, encouraging handloom-sector in this manner can bring back glory to garment-export industry in India.
—Subhash Chandra Agrawal,
1775 Kucha Lattushah Dariba, Chandni Chowk, Delhi.