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India: Bihar to emboss all cotton and silk products woven in the state

The Bihar government plans to emboss the Handloom Mark to all handloom cotton and silk products woven in the state to bring in authenticity and transparency in subsidy distribution. The process will also help the government to identify which product has been woven where and by whom. The government will provide subsidy ranging from 10 to 20 per cent only on those products that carry the Handloom Mark. This step will bring transparency in subsidy distribution, as the number printed on the label will denote who wove what and where.

Bihar, currently, houses around 6,741 active handlooms with unique identification numbers, which the state government is trying to increase to 10,000. The Handloom Mark scheme was launched in 2006 under the office of the Development Commissioner for Handlooms, with the textiles committee under the Ministry of Textiles as the implementing agency to give a collective identity to handloom products that would help guarantee for the buyer that the product being bought is genuinely hand-woven. The National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, had designed its logo from the interlocking of the warp and the weft to form a three-dimensional cube.

So far, Bihar has been using Handloom Mark labels in the satrangi chadar - the hospital bedsheet scheme meant for government hospitals since 2017-18. The government now wants to expand to all products, except low-priced ones such as gamchha (towel), lungi and handkerchief. The challenge was to supply enough Handloom Mark labels to weavers, as the textile ministry offices in Varanasi and Calcutta are not providing it in adequate numbers.

 

 
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