Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, Dec 13, 2005
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, Dec 13, 2005 |
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Industry & Economy
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Handloom Call for capacity building in handloom, handicrafts Our Bureau
The President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, presenting an award to Ms Radha Ben of Gujarat in the Capital on Monday. — Ramesh Sharma
New Delhi , Dec. 12 THE President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, today said there was a need for scaling up capacities in the handloom and handicraft sector so that the employment generation potential of the sector could be fully tapped. "Handicraft and handloom sector has enormous potential to provide productive employment to large number of craft persons and weavers. There are also opportunities to create enterprises in rural, semi-urban and urban areas but we have to see how we can empower our craftsmen and weavers so that people will get interested in crafts work and specialised weaving work," he said. "For empowering the handloom and handicraft workers we have to build capacity amongst artisans and handloom weavers through technology and training," Mr Kalam said after presenting national awards to master craftpersons and weavers. For empowering the sector, exclusive design centres should be established to promote handloom products with inbuilt know how from the fashion design centres of the country, the President said adding that the centres could be established in all the regions where handloom work is predominant. Design centres can be created on the lines of Tirupur garment design centres, Mr Kalam said. The domestic market and the market abroad should be created for the handloom and handicraft products through proper business development practices and aggressive advertisement, he added.
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