Textiles, Handlooms and Handicrafts Minister Snehangini Chhuria on Thursday said all the Primary Weavers’ Cooperative Societies would be connected through e-commerce so that individual weavers would get chance to enter the international market directly.
Inaugurating a one-day workshop of weavers, the Minister also stated that a State Handloom Policy would be put in place in a month’s time for the development of weavers.
Similarly, she informed that 16 craft colleges have been connected to the tourism sector and a printing centre would be set up soon at Gopalpur for making of tussar clothes. Besides, the State Government has a plan to establish a handicraft part at Bargarh and connect handlooms sector to tourism and fashion industry, she added.
Attending the workshop, Union Textiles Secretary Sanjay Kumar Panda said a handicraft industry should have a heritage and tradition-based market base. “Quality products should be weaved for sustenance in the competitive market and to dominate machine-weaved clothes,” he said.
Among others, Union Handloom Development Commissioner Alok Kumar, National Handloom Development Corporation Director S Srinivas, State Textiles and Handicrafts Secretary Chitra Arumugam and Handlooms Director Gobinda Chandra Biswal were present.