The handloom weaving sector has been greatly benefited under the present government as 10,000 weaver families have been given Green Houses in the past few years said O.S. Manian, Handloom and Textile minister.
Inaugurating the new office building for Tamilnadu Handloom Development Corporation limited constructed at Saibaba colony at the cost of Rs. 21 lakhs and distributing loans to the weavers of Coimbatore, Tiruppur, and Erode to the tune of Rs.2.60 crores O. S. Manian said that under the free power scheme, power loom operators are getting 750 unit and handloom weavers 200 units of power thanks to the measures augmented for the benefit of weaving community.
The power loom units owned by the Tamilnadu Handloom Development corporation is extending employment to 150 workers and the sarees and dhotis distributed under the Pongal gifts are being woven here . There is power loom unit in Sivagiri, and Arupukottai’ the minister said and added that the over 500 weavers are being benefited by loans under Mudras scheme to the tune of Rs. 2.60 crores.
Natarajan, managing director of Tamilnadu Handloom Development Corporation, Cooptex Board chairman K. V. Manoharan took part in the function.
Inaugurating the new office building for Tamilnadu Handloom Development Corporation limited constructed at Saibaba colony at the cost of Rs. 21 lakhs and distributing loans to the weavers of Coimbatore, Tiruppur, and Erode to the tune of Rs.2.60 crores O. S. Manian said that under the free power scheme, power loom operators are getting 750 unit and handloom weavers 200 units of power thanks to the measures augmented for the benefit of weaving community.
The power loom units owned by the Tamilnadu Handloom Development corporation is extending employment to 150 workers and the sarees and dhotis distributed under the Pongal gifts are being woven here . There is power loom unit in Sivagiri, and Arupukottai’ the minister said and added that the over 500 weavers are being benefited by loans under Mudras scheme to the tune of Rs. 2.60 crores.
Natarajan, managing director of Tamilnadu Handloom Development Corporation, Cooptex Board chairman K. V. Manoharan took part in the function.