The government has started linking skill development initiative with its program to develop the handloom industry. An MoU was signed between the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and the Ministry of Textiles on National Handloom Day to bring in a paradigm shift in the handloom industry.

Though trades like spinning, dyeing, beem bharai, designing and weaving are traditional skills which are in practice for decades, but they have never been given importance formally. Now, there is a need to revive interest in these skills and make them viable and paying. The MSDE and the Ministry of Textiles have chalked out a new strategy for promoting production and marketing of high value quality handloom products with the key objective of enhancing earnings of handloom weavers.

At present, 28 Weavers Service Centres (WSCs) across the country are providing technical assistance to handloom weavers. WSCs are nodal agencies for carrying out skill up-gradation training in the areas of weaving, designing, dyeing/printing, managerial functions and use of technology in handiworks.