Minister promises steps to buy unsold products from weavers
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₹12 cr. shares stay with societies in E.G. as COVID-19 impacts advertising and marketing
Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ch. Venu Gopala Krishna on Saturday promised measures to guarantee buy of handloom products that remained unsold owing to COVID-19 impression on the commerce and advertising and marketing actions.
In East Godavari district alone, the place greater than 15,000 households are engaged in handloom weaving, products price ₹12 crore are mendacity within the godowns of fifty weavers’ cooperative societies. They included saris, blankets and towels.
At Addampalli village within the Ramachandrapuram Assembly section, weavers advised the Minister that blankets price ₹1.36 crore supposed to be bought by the AP State Handloom Weavers Co-operative Society Limited (APCO) had piled up with them.
The Minister tried to know the way the handloom exercise got here to a grinding halt due to a delay within the advertising and marketing of the products and the impression of COVID-19 from the weavers of Sri Malleswara Handloom Weavers’ Co-operative Society Limited, which has 334 members working 130 handlooms. He noticed that girls had been the most important contributors in handloom weaving at numerous levels.
“The State government’s annual package of ₹24,000 has come to the rescue of the weavers affected by lack of sales due to COVID-19. Many of them are now eking out a livelihood through the national rural employment guarantee scheme. Their plight will be brought to the notice of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy,” stated Mr. Venu Gopala Krishna.
“The reasons for the delay in procurement of handloom products by APCO will be looked into. The BC Welfare Department will also persuade APCO to purchase blankets and towels for use in the department’s welfare hostels,” he stated.
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