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Govt dangles subsidy carrot for weavers
IT and Textile Minister K T Rama Rao on Wednesday directed the officials to give the government subsidy to the weavers through Aadhaar and biometric system.The Minister reviewed the functioning of the Textile Department here on Wednesday. The Minister said that no other government had allocated funds like the TRS for the weavers’ community.
Textile Minister KT Rama Rao directs officials to provide all benefits to the weavers through Aadhaar and biometric system
Hyderabad: IT and Textile Minister K T Rama Rao on Wednesday directed the officials to give the government subsidy to the weavers through Aadhaar and biometric system.The Minister reviewed the functioning of the Textile Department here on Wednesday. The Minister said that no other government had allocated funds like the TRS for the weavers’ community.
He said that all the benefits would be provided to the weavers directly. He further said that there would be a directory at the state-level which would have the statistics like number of weavers, number of looms of the weavers, their production
capacity etc.The Minister said that the government was trying to provide all the benefits directly to the weavers.In order to avoid the leakages, the government would soon link all the benefits to the Aadhaar and biometric system.
The officials were asked to prepare policy to see that the pension of the weavers is deposited in to their bank accounts. He directed the officials to have unique policies for the benefit of the weavers as desired by the Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.The Minister was informed that there were 17,000 weavers’ looms in the State and Geotagging were completed for the 14,300 looms.
The Minister said that the primary objective of the government was to save the weaver community. The government would provide support to the weavers if they want to go into other sector if the textile sector was not providing any benefit, said the Minister adding that the weavers would be given loans on special subsidy.The Minister told the officials that government should play the role of master weaver, with which the small weavers would have more benefit.
He said that the government was providing 50 per cent subsidy to the weavers for procuring the yarn. The Minister inquired on how the procurement was going on in the cotton, polyester, silk, wool and other yarn and also wanted to know what changes can be made.
