CATALYTIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR
DEVELOPMENT OF SERICULTURE
The Central Silk
Board (CSB) has been implementing Catalytic Development Programme
(CDP) for development of Sericulture in collaboration with the
State Governments. The programme supports stake holders in operations
ranging from food plant cultivation to marketing of products in
mulberry, tasar, eri and muga silk. Technology absorption, investment
generation, productivity improvement and employment generation
form the basic objective of the programme.
An amount of Rs.
52.88 crore was allocated by CSB for the programme during the
9th Plan. The allocation for CDP during the 10th
Plan is Rs. 173.73 crore.
Most of the components
under CDP propose financial assistance with the subsidy/assistance
to be provided to the beneficiaries by both CSB and the State
Government concerned. The Scheme aims to promote adoption of improved
technology practices in various activities like host plantation,
seed production, rearing of silkworm, reeling and twisting, weaving,
printing and dyeing for enhancement of production and productivity,
and upgradation of the quality of silk.
Though some States
have also prepared a centrally sponsored scheme called Price Incentive
for Reeling Cocoons as a short-term market intervention measure
under which no central assistance has yet been released.
This information
was given by the Minister of State for Textiles, Shri Basanagouda
R. Patil, in reply to a question by Shri G. Sreenivasa Rao in
the Lok Sabha today.
