Govt. will set up handloom clusters to help weavers, says official

Commissioner of Textiles y Telares Manuals Rekha Rani (third from the left) along with the newly elected committee of the Cowe AP chapter, in Vijayawada on Thursday. | Photo credit: Giri Kvs

The Textile and Telares Commissioner Rekha Rani in Thorsday said that the Government would support initiatives such as issuing health cards to working women of manual looms and also extending help to facilitate the necessary equipment and subsidies so that they are and friends who infore and friends who violate and friends who face each other and friends and friends of friends and friends.

Going to a meeting organized by the chapter of Andhra Pradesh of the Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Cowe), Mrs. Rekha Rani emphasized the growing importance of the manual looming sector and said that the government was committed to establishing manual loom groups with the help of organizations such as Cowe. A pilot initiative entitled “Chenetha Rathamu” had already been launched (Telaraña CharioT), allowing manual loom weavers to sell their products directly in the streets of the city and residential areas using mobile vehicles, with low investments and high yields.

Cowe Committee

Cowe’s newly elected executive members assumed the position at the meeting attended by the National Secretary of the Organizations, Aparana and the Joint Secretary Radhika.

Y. Geetha Srikanth was sworn in as the new president of Daae, Andhra Pradesh, Vijayalakshmi and Jayalakshmi as secretaries, Y. Padmalatha as treasurer and Shobha Rani, Swathi Chandra, K. Kavitive Mravani and Laksers.