Hyderabad: Handloom Day celebrated

Hyderabad: The 5th National Handloom Day celebrated at GITAM Deemed-to-be University, Hyderabad on Wednesday. National Service Scheme (NSS) organised this rally. Prof. N. Siva Prasad, Pro Vice-Chancellor presided over the function at Gandhi Square and DVVSR Varma, Resident Director, Prof. A Sreeram, Director, Student Affairs, Dr. P.V. Nagendra Kumar, NSS Coordinator also present on this occasion. Hon'ble Pro VC appealed the students to wear handloom dresses as many as possible on the occasion of Independence Day. If we wear handloom clothes the employment would be generated and it gives a boost to the local economy also, he added.

NSS volunteers rally went around the camps and gave the slogans that 'we the Indians, we wear handloom' and 'we encourage Indian handloom' to educate other fellow students.

The National Handloom Day is observed annually on 7th August to honour the handloom weavers in the country and also highlight India's handloom industry. National Handloom Day seeks to focus on the contribution of handloom to the socio economic development of the country and also increase the income of weavers. August 7 was chosen as the National Handloom Day to commemorate the Swadeshi Movement which was launched on this day in 1905 in Calcutta Town Hall to protest against the partition of Bengal by the British Government. The movement had aimed at reviving domestic products and production processes.