UNION GOVERNMENT has been taking several steps to encourage handloom-sector in the country for which the government also imposes handloom-cess 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 countries like China and Pakistan, encouraging handloom-sector in this manner can bring back glory to garment-export industry in India.
A large section of populace is working in the handloom sector and it is important that government gives an impetus in the form of economic subsidies and better conditions for workers. Handloom sector is labour intensive and if the government comes out with proper policies, then a vast number of workers and their families would benefit and this would also improve their social and economic standing.
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