Gudiyattam Gudiyattam Town - Municipal

Chapter ñ5 Final Report: Gudiyattam Municipality
varieties and would be linked with the leading exporters, helping the weavers to
earn more wages.
3. Effort to boost up small scale and cottage industries
The town has, Handloom, tanneries, rice mills, safety matches, beedis, engineering
works, saw mills etc. in and around the town. The small scale and cottage industries
and can be encouraged by giving assistance and concessions through support
schemes and programmes of the Government.
4. Promote marketing of handloom goods
Marketing Promotion Programmes like Publicity and Exhibitions, setting up of
Marketing Complexes, Participation in trade fairs, Increasing capacity building in
entrepreneurship and marketing skill of weavers will open new marketing avenues.
5. Livelihood enhancement for weavers through schemes and programmes for
social development
There are lot of support institutions and schemes to supplement weaving activities.
The Institutions like Weavers Service Centre, Co-optex, National Institute of Design
are in place to support the Handloom Cluster in Tamil Nadu. One could also see
academic Institutions for importing textile technology. Development of such
Supportive Technical Institutions will pave easy access for the goods of Cluster.
Implementing various schemes and centers such as Handloom Development
Centre, setting up of common facility center, Project Package Scheme, Help
Package Scheme, Weavers Welfare scheme on Insurance coverage, Housing
scheme for weavers may further encourage the production and marketing.
6. Build on the industrial base to create further scope for development.
To strengthen the economic base of the region, promotion of industries is an
indispensable requirement. Therefore, the following efforts may be initiated to
stimulate industrial development.
Proactive physical and social infrastructure provisioning.
Development of SEZs, Export Zones and Expansion/Establishment of Industrial
complexes/parks
Improving the transportation network connecting the towns and industrial
clusters will act as development catalysts for surrounding rural areas
Improve mobility within the town and the surrounding
Sustainable communities encompassing places of work, stay and assembly.
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