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Allcargo Logistics strengthens Varanasi handloom cluster with secure door-to-door and COD servicesThe company provides comprehensive logistics services, including door-to-door delivery and cash-on-delivery. This helps weavers and traders...- A dying trade: Can the handloom sector stand up to the march of the machines?The handloom sector is a big employer, contributes a chunk to exports and is deeply ingrained with the rural economy. In the age of automat...
- Budget 2019 speech by FM Piyush Goyal: Full textTo promote entertainment industry - Single window clearance for ease of shooting films, available only to foreigners, is now going to be ma...
- Budget 2019: Read full text of Piyush Goyal's speech in ParliamentIn Budget speech, FM not only tried to woo the middle class, but also tried to address rural stress.
- What India makes: List of India's manufacturing hubsApparel industry manufacturing woollen garments and hosiery apparel, hand tools and industrial equipment, bicycle manufacturing, bicycle pa...
- How online platforms for handcrafted products are proving to be a boon for craftsmenOnline platforms are connecting customers directly with craftsmen for the sale of their products removing the middlemen.
- Why Varanasi’s handloom craftsmen foresee uncertain times in the GST eraA shadow has fallen over the shining threads: the weavers are confused and distressed over the imposition of 5% goods & services tax (GST) ...
- From niche to chic: Retailers, ecommerce players find potential market in hand-woven fabricsWhile brands like Fabindia have always worked with handloom fabrics, those like Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail and Titan Group are now rea...
- Government working to increase wages of skilled handloom weavers: Santosh Kumar GangwarGangwar said the Budget utilisation for the sector in 2015-16 was Rs 591 crore, which is 25 per cent higher than the previous year.
- Designers, weavers join hands to revive Varanasi’s textile traditionsVaranasi's shrinking community of weavers that has dwindled from 3 lakh weavers to 40,000 became designer and BJP treasurer Shaina NC's man...
- 25 designers to base upcoming collections on Benarasi textileEach designer will soon be connected with middlemen who will help them identify the weavers, so that they can create their product line as ...
- Common Facility Centres to help 1 lakh weavers upgrade skills: Santosh GangwarUnion Textiles Minister Santosh Gangwar today laid the foundation stone of seven handloom common facility centres here, which will help one...
- How Modi government is planning to make Varanasi the hub of handloom products"The government is serious about linking fashion and modern designs to handloom," says SK Panda, Union textiles secretary.
- E-commerce firms like Flipkart, Snapdeal giving handicraft sector much-needed online pushFlipkart has tied up with multiple govt ministries to help artisans shift towards online sales. It has created an exclusive store for Banar...
- Rural craft gets an online boostA clutch of online marketplaces has begun partnering with artisans to bring their products within reach of city customers, a move that is h...
- Festivals will be much brighter, happier if 'Taant' sari industry is unfolded and made to flow againTake the ‘home state’ of the taant sari, West Bengal. In 1982, there were 8,052 power-looms in the small-scale sector with the number of wo...
- Government not to sell NTC: Santosh Gangwar, Textiles MinisterGovt said "it is committed not to sell" the loss making NTC and plans to nurse the ailing state-owned textiles firm back to health.
- India plans to open handloom stores abroadHandicrafts and Handloom Exports Corporation of India as well as Handloom Export Promotion Council are working in that direction, he said.
- Budget 2014: Rs 200 crore allocated to set up six textiles clustersArun Jaitley allocated Rs 200 crore to set up six textile clusters. These will be located in, among other places, Rae Bareli, Lucknow, Sura...
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