Industry Details

 India is the highest handloom producing

country in the World, With 3.9 million
handlooms.
 Second largest Employer industry after
agriculture
 The textile industry constitutes
approximately 14% of country's total
industrial production
 Objectives of handloom industry

 To arrange short and long term training programmes on weaving,

dyeing, designing, printing of handloom fabrics
 To undertake, aid, promote and co-ordinate research and
development activities on all aspects of handloom industry
 To publish research papers, books and periodicals and undertake
and assist in the organization of conferences, seminars, workshops
and lectures in matters connected with the above
 To establish and maintain libraries including
Fabric/screens/blocks/literature etc..
 To provide laboratory facilities for testing, raw materials,
consumables and finished goods etc.
 To conduct short term courses on management, productivity, allied
subjects etc. for the benefit of the managerial persons and
supervisory staff employed in the Handloom Industry
 CURRENT SITUATION

Domestic textile and clothing sales touched US $30

billion in the last fiscal and shipments from the
sector reached $21 billion, both when toted up,
command a eye catching figure of $51 billion. But as
sectoral analysts had predicted, the combined figures
are set to fall by 2-3 percent in the current fiscal
Exports are expected to dip by 3 percent, when
compared to figures of the last fiscal, while domestic
sales are expected, if at all they grow by nominal
rates.
 SURVIVAL OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY
RESTS ON THREE KEY FACTORS

 Scale
 Quality
 Innovation
 Total Project Cost

Details Rs No. of Total cost (Rs)

Machines
Cost of land building 600000
Cost of a machine 40000 2 80000
Pirn winding machine 60,000 1 60000
Warping machine 45,000 2 90000
Reads 1,000 2 2000
Headless 4,500 2 4500
Sundries 1,500 2 3000
Raw Material cost (Yarn requirement)
(Yarn price is RS: 1500/kg)
Warp yarn (10 kgs per machine) 1,500 20 30000
Weft yarn (17 kgs per machine) 1,500 34 51000
Machine setting up charges 2000 7 14000
Total Project Cost 9,34,500
 PRODUCTION/WAGE ANALYSIS

 Average production per worker 8-10 meters per day (8

hours)

 Average earning per meter RS: 15/= - RS: 20/= per

meter

 Average earning per worker per day RS: 150.00 per day

 Total no. of worker: 22

 No of shift: 2
 Production per day = : 22 x 10 = 220 meter
 Total labour cost : 220 meter x 15 per meter = Rs 3300 per day.
 Supply of Inputs
The main input is the cotton yarn, Polyester

 Supplier
Radhika Yarns, Heda

 Products to be manufactured
Paithani Sarees,

 Supply Position
Handloom textile products have been able to compete
successfully with machine made fabrics due to its special
characteristics and high demand.

 Major Export Markets(For overall handloom industry)

Japan, U.K., South Korea, U.S.A., France, and Netherlands.
 ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY SIDBI

 The Government of India has decided

to continue the Technology
Upgradation Fund Scheme for the
textiles & jute industries for with effect
from 01.11.2007 upto 31.03.2012
 Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme

 The Scheme will now provide an additional option to the

powerlooms units to avail of 20% Margin Money subsidy
under TUFS in lieu of 5% interest reimbursement on
investment in TUF compatible specified machinery
subject to a capital ceiling of Rs. 200 lakh and ceiling on
margin money subsidy Rs.20 lakh. A minimum of 15%
equity contribution from beneficiaries will be ensured.

 The Scheme will provide 25% capital subsidy on

purchase of the new machinery and equipments for the
pre-loom & post-loom operations, handlooms/up-
gradation of handlooms and testing & Quality Control
equipments, for handloom production units.
 Contd..

 The Scheme will now provide Interest

subsidy/capital subsidy/Margin Money
subsidy on the basic value of the machineries
and exclude the tax component for the
purpose of valuation in view of the decision
for non-subsidizing the taxes.
 MARKETING ASSISTANCE TO
HANDLOOM WEAVERS

a) District level events (DLEs)

b) National Handloom Expo
c) Craft Melas
d) Handloom EXPORT Scheme
 HANDLOOM COOPERATIVE
MARKETING COMPLEXES
 To market Handloom products produced by Weavers Co-
operative Societies, a State level Apex-Marketing Co-
operative Society, "Co-optex" has been established. Co-
optex has wide network of show rooms in and outside of
Tamil Nadu. Further, as part of Market promotion
strategy with an inbuilt objective to provide continuous
employment to the Weavers, Marketing Complexes have
been set up in the following places by the Department of
Handlooms and Textiles.

 Kanchi Cooperative Silks, Anna Salai, Chennai.

 Ezhukadal Handloom Showroom, Madurai.
Thank you