With a view to improve the working conditions of handloom
weavers and for the sustainable development of handloom sector, the Ministry
of Textiles, through various schemes and programmes, has adopted focused,
flexible and holistic approach by facilitating marketing of handloom products,
infrastructure development, brand building and empowerment of weavers by
organizing them under self help groups, training and skill upgradation,
infusion of new and contemporary designs through design intervention as well as
product diversification, technology upgradation, easy access to raw material at
subsidized prices and easy credit flow at low interest rate etc., besides
providing better health care and life insurance under welfare schemes.,
following schemes have been approved for implementation during 12th
Plan:
1. National Handloom Development
Programme- two components:
(i) Comprehensive Handlooms
Development Scheme
(ii) Revival, Reform and Restructuring (RRR)
Package for handloom sector
2. Handloom Weavers Comprehensive
Welfare Scheme- two components:
(i) Health Insurance Scheme for
access to health care facilities
(ii) Mahatma Gandhi Bunkar Bima Yojana for
life insurance
3.
Yarn
Supply Scheme
4.
Comprehensive
Handloom Cluster Development Scheme
The details of schemes are given in
Annexure-I.
The details of grants provided
to the handloom weavers for the last three years and current year is at
Annexure-II.
For
powerloom weavers/workers the Government of India has launched various schemes
for improvement in their working condition, the details of the scheme are given
in Annexure-III.
Training
and skill development programmes are being organized under Integrated Skill
Development Scheme (ISDS) in various parts of the country by Weavers Service
Centre (WSC) and Indian Institute of Handloom Technology(IIHT) to help handloom
weavers to produce diversified products with innovative use and improved
quality to meet changing market trends and get remunerative prices. The
training and skill development programmes includes training in preparatory
process, winding, sizing, graph making, manual designing, CATD designing,
printing, dyeing, lattice making and card punching.
For
powerloom weavers under Integrated Skill Development Scheme (ISDS) the training
is imparted through 14 powerloom service centres of the Office of the Textile
Commissioner. Under the Scheme, training related to basic weaving, shuttle
less weaving, fitter-cum-jober, textile fabric design, fabric productions, high
speed sectional warping, sewing machine operator, embroidery machine operator
is imparted to improve their techniques.
Annexure-I
Details of schemes under implementation for Handloom Sector
1.
NATIONAL
HANDLOOM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME:
National
Handloom Development Programme (NHDP) is being implemented as a centrally
sponsored programme for development of handlooms, having following components:-
a.
Revival,
Reform & Restructuring (RRR) package for the handloom sector:
RRR package covers waiver of
overdue loan 100% principal and 25% of interest as on 31/3/2010 and
recapitalization assistance of eligible apex and primary weavers of the cooperative
societies & individual weavers and also provides fresh loan at 6% interest
rate along with credit guarantee for 3 years. The RRR Package was approved for
implementation upto 28.02.2014. For providing access to subsidized term loan as
well as working capital loan to handloom weavers not covered under loan waiver
package, Government has approved Concessional Credit Component. The loan is
sanctioned to weavers at 6% interest and GoI interest subvention is max.7% and
to leverage the loan, Government provides margin money assistance upto Rs.
10,000 per weaver and credit guarantee through Credit guarantee Trust Fund for
Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE).
b.
Comprehensive
Handlooms Development scheme (CHDS)
CHDS
has been formulated by merging the components of Integrated Handloom
Development Scheme (IHDS), Marketing & Export Promotion Scheme (MEPS) and
Diversified Handloom Development Scheme (DHDS), implemented during the 11th
Plan. Sub-components of the CHDS are as follows:-
i.
Development
of handloom clusters of different sizes
ii.
Consolidation
of existing handloom clusters in 2 years
iii.
Group
Approach Projects
iv.
Marketing
Incentive
v.
Organizing
handloom exhibitions, both in India and abroad for marketing of handloom
products
vi.
Strengthening
of handloom organizations/institutions
vii.
Handloom
Census
viii.
Publicity,
monitoring, supervision, training and evaluation of the scheme
2.
HANDLOOM WEAVERS COMPREHENSIVE WELFARE SCHEME:
This
scheme has 2 components namely Health Insurance Scheme (HIS) and Mahatma Gandhi
Bunkar Bima Yojana (MGBBY). The HIS aims at enabling the weaver community to
access healthcare facilities. The scheme covers not only the weaver but the
spouse and two children. It also provides outpatient (OP) treatment facility.
On the other hand, MGBBY aims to provide insurance cover to handloom weavers in
the case of natural as well as accidental death and in cases of total or
partial disability. A scholarship of Rs.300/- per quarter per child subject
to two children studying in standard IX to XII is also provided under MGBBY.
3.
YARN
SUPPLY SCHEME (YSS):
This
scheme makes available all types of yarn at Mill Gate Price to the eligible
handloom agencies and the transport and depot operating expenses are being
borne by the Government of India. Further, to provide the subsidized yarn to
handloom weavers in order to compete with powerloom and mill sector, a new
component of 10% price subsidy on cotton hank yarn, domestic silk yarn and
woollen yarn is also provided.
4.
COMPREHENSIVE
HANDLOOM CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT SCHEME:
Mega handloom cluster covers 25,000 handlooms
and is developed at an upper GoI share of Rs.70.00 crore each in a period of 5
years. So far, six mega handloom clusters at Varanasi, Sivasagar, Murshidabad,
Godda, Virudhnagar and Prakasham (A.P.) have been taken up for development in
handloom sector.
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Annexure-II
Details of grants provided to the weavers for
the last three years & current year
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Rupees in Crores
|
|
Name of Schemes (Plan)
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2011-12
|
2012-13
|
2013-14
|
2014-15
(as on 14/11/2014)
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1.
|
Integrated
Handloom Development Scheme
|
219.49
|
138.96
|
Merged with CHDS
|
0
|
|
2.
|
Marketing
& Export Promotion Scheme
|
53.59
|
41.37
|
0
|
|
3.
|
Handloom
Weavers Comprehensive Welfare Scheme
|
68.22
|
127.03
|
66
|
29.5
|
|
4.
|
Mill
Gate Price Scheme/ Yarn Supply Scheme
|
54.27
|
122.91
|
96.86
|
118.34
|
|
5.
|
Diversified
Handloom Development Scheme
|
13.34
|
17.08
|
Merged with CHDS
|
Merged with NHDP
|
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6.
|
Revival
reform and Restructuring Package for the Handloom Sector
|
200
|
291.03
|
269.79
|
|
7.
|
Comprehensive
Handloom Development Scheme
|
0
|
0
|
117.35
|
|
8.
|
National
Handloom Development Programme
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
206.4
|
|
9.
|
CHCDS-Handloom
Mega Cluster
|
0
|
0
|
27.25
|
12.52
|
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Total (Plan)
|
608.91
|
738.38
|
577.25
|
366.76
|
|
|
|
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Annexure-III
Schemes
for powerloom sector
1.
Government
of India provides technical service support by way of 47 powerloom service
centres working in different locations to support the unorganised powerloom
across the country.
2.
Group
Workshed Scheme – Under the scheme minimum four weavers can form a group for
installing 48 modern looms of single widths or 24 wider widths looms.
3.
15% and
30% margin money subsidy scheme under Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFs)
4.
Pilot
scheme of in-situ upgradation of plain powerloom, launched in October, 2013.
5.
Hire
purchase scheme for powerloom sector under TUFs.
6.
Group Insurance
Scheme for powerloom workers.
7.
Health
Insurance Scheme for powerloom weavers.
8.
Integrated
Scheme for Powerloom Sector Development (ISPSD)
(i)
Buyer
Seller Meet
(ii)
Exposure
visit
(iii)
Seminars
& Workshops
9. New components
launched in October, 2003 under ISPSD
(i)
common
Facility Centre (CFC)
(ii)
Corpus for
yarn bank
(iii)
Pilot
scheme for Tex. Venture Capital Fund
The
information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the
Ministry of Textiles Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar in a written reply in Rajya
Sabha today.
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