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Coimbatore , Nov. 12

The Department of Handlooms, Textiles, Handicrafts in Tamil Nadu will be revisiting various government-supported schemes in operation to assess how far the stakeholders in these clusters really derived benefit out of them.

The effort in this regard to be initiated soon will also enable the department to `holistically' assess the drawbacks or the local factors that are left out from the overall scheme implementation since most schemes are tailor-made and might have ignored the factors specific to a particular region, according to Mr C.P. Singh, Secretary.

Mr Singh was speaking at a one-day seminar on `Possibilities of jute in developing lifestyle products' organised by the Jute Manufactures Development Council (JMDC), National Centre for Jute Diversification (NCJD) in association with the PSG College of Technology here recently.

He said such a re-look on cluster schemes would cover handlooms, handicrafts and sericulture.

In sericulture, for example, the thrust had all along been on silk production and today while there had been huge raw silk production, not much post-cocoon processing facility had been created with the result marketing the cocoons or silk yarn faced severe constraints, felt Mr Singh.

"The State produces now annually 600 tonnes of white silk but we don't have single reeling unit.

"One automatic silk reeling unit will be enough to convert 250 tonnes of cocoon. We may need three such units," Mr Singh pointed out saying that the lack of post-cocoon processing has forced the sericulturists to take their produce to Karnataka for marketing.

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