Encourage Handloom

Bureau,Odishabarta

DELHI:Union government has been taking several steps to encourage handloom-sector in the country. Before introduction of GST-system in the country, handloom-cess used to be imposed 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 neighbouring countries, encouraging handloom-sector in this manner can bring back glory to garment-export industry in India.

Input;Ms.Madhu