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Skill training for 10000 weavers
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BHUBANESWAR: The state government will train 10,000 weavers in skill development to ensure their gainful employment. Also, other welfare programmes will be converged at the field-level for integrated development of around 40,000 weavers' families.
Sources said chief secretary B K Patnaik had recently asked the textile, handloom and handicraft departments to chalk out details of these convergences. District collectors will be sensitized about these programmes for better implementation. The government has also sought assistance from National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) to bridge the gaps in handloom and handicraft clusters.
He also asked the panchayati raj department to adopt 20 such clusters and intensify NRLM activities and take steps to provide concrete and wide roads to these clusters. The government will also keep a database of eligible weavers to be included in the pension schemes and also discussed different proposals such as providing infrastructure support for tassar godowns, tassar seed infrastructure, technical service centres and rearing house for mulberry. The health and family welfare department will cover handloom and handicraft villages under mobile camps health .
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