Scheme for Development of Indian Handloom Industry | Integrated Hand looms Development Scheme | Mill Gate Price Scheme

To uplift the handloom industry, Government has introduced many schemes. Fibre2fashion highlights the Government Schemes and its effectiveness.

Government Schemes for the upliftment of the Handlooms Industry

The Ministry of Textiles announced the following five Schemes in the 11^th Five year plan by merging the different Schemes of 10^th Five year plan.

Office of the Development Commissioner for Handlooms New Delhi headed by Shri B.K. Sinha, IAS, Development Commissioner for Handlooms, functioning under the Ministry of Textiles, administers these five schemes for the Promotion and Development of the Handloom Sector and also provides assistance to the Handloom Weavers in 4 varieties of ways. Its subordinate organizations include Weavers' Service Centre (WSCs), Indian Institute of Handloom Technology (IIHTs) and the Regional Office of the DCH (Enforcement Wing)

Following are the abstracts of the five schemes of 11^th Five year plan. The complete details can be obtained from www.handlooms.nic.in

Five Schemes of 11^th Five Year Plan

Integrated Handlooms Development Scheme (IHDS)
Mill Gate price scheme.
Handloom Weavers Welfare Scheme.
Marketing and Export promotion Scheme.
Diversified Handloom Development Scheme.

1. Integrated Handlooms Development Scheme (IHDS)

To form Handloom Weavers Groups.
To assist weavers for becoming self Sustainable.
To cover weavers within and outside the Co-op. fold.
To upgrade the skills of the Handloom Weavers.
To provide suitable work place to the weavers.
To orient Marketing, Designing and managing the production.
To facilitate credit from Banks.
To encourage Co-operative actions of weavers.
To intervene each cluster with specific holistic and flexible manner.
This Scheme comprises of four parts.

	*Part-A:*	Cluster Development Programme (Assistance for Handloom cluster, having Handlooms in the range of 300-500).
	*Part-B:*	"Group Approach" for Development of Handlooms.
	*Part-C:*	Financial Assistance to the Handloom Organizations.
	*Part-D:*	Assistance for Innovative ideas and publicity monitoring, Supervision, Training & Evaluation of Scheme.

20 clusters were taken-up in Phase-I
332 clusters were taken-up in Phase-II & Phase-III