Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that Khadi Gramodyog’s business has crossed Rs 1.5 lakh crore for the first time and asserted that the rising sales of Khadi and handloom were creating new job opportunities in large numbers. In his Mann Ki Baat monthly radio broadcast, Modi said many people who would not be…
REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE ONLY Families that flock to textile showrooms to purchase Kancheepuram silk saris for weddings are feeling the heat as renowned saris have become more expensive. Prices of gold have been soaring, straining the budgets of those looking to get married even further. Over the past eight months, the price of Kancheepuram silk saris…
Handloom is a more than 2,000-year-old craft. But today the segment mostly thrives on government support in Tamil Nadu, especially the free sari-dhoti scheme as well as initiatives from state-owned Co-optex. The advent of mechanization and powerlooms had taken the focus away from handlooms towards mass production, which handlooms could not match. Globally too, the…
