Weavers

He said the government has hiked the financial assistance to the weavers under the Nekar Sanman scheme to Rs 5,000

The Ministry of Textiles has taken steps to onboard weavers and artisans on the Govt e-Marketplace (GeM) to enable them to sell their products directly to various govt departments and organizations

An industry, unravelling: Work is demanding, pay just enough

Over 800,000 artisans and weavers associated with 1,500 Amazon Karigar sellers and 17 government emporiums including Tantuja, Harit Khadi, Tribes India will benefit from this mela

Weavers witnessed a near-complete erosion of the handloom value chain during the lockdown

Irani has called upon big commercial brands like BIBA and Arvind Mills to source cloth directly from the weavers

In a series of tweets, Shah said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mantra of 'vocal for local' will surely boost the morale of the handloom sector

Amid growing demand, e-commerce companies in Kanpur have been acquiring these gamchhas to sell them online

The group's chief believes that reviving the handicraft and handloom sector could be a critical step in developing a more robust economy

How K Radharaman, founder of Bengaluru's House of Angadi, is helping to shape the course of India's textile history

A post Goods and Services Tax (GST) hike in prices of fully drawn yarn (FDY) and partially oriented yarn (POY) by 5-7 per cent has sent the synthetic textile weaving industry reeling under margin pressures. The price hike has been caused by rising raw material prices such as purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and monoethylene glycol (MEG) which have spiked on the back of rising crude prices.However, at a time when several weavers, processors and traders are yet to register under GSTN, along with lack of clarity over accumulated duty credit and reverse charge mechanism (RCM), decentralised powerlooms and textile processing units are finding it tough to sustain under rising input costs."There is still uncertainty in the industry since registration process is still going on. Weavers, processors and traders are not in the position to buy or sell. At such a time, a price hike in raw materials is having a significant impact on our input costs as well as margins," said Ashish Gujarati, ...

Textiles Minister Smriti Irani says govt is planning to increase the level of insurance cover of handloom weavers under the MGBBY