PARLIAMENT QUESTION: WELFARE SCHEMS FOR HANDLOOM WEAVERS

PARLIAMENT QUESTION: WELFARE SCHEMS FOR HANDLOOM WEAVERS

Ministry of Textiles, Government of India is implementing following schemes for the welfare of handloom weavers/workers under National Handloom Development Programme (NHDP) across the country:

As per the data of Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, the total export of cotton textiles including cotton yarn, cotton fabrics, madeups, other textile yarn, fabric madeups and cotton raw including waste has been US 35,642 million dollars for the last 3 years.

There is no proposal currently under consideration.

This information was provided by UNION MINISTER FOR TEXTILES SHRI GIRIRAJ SINGH in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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