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ON RECORD PAGE 9<br />
New Handloom Policy on the anvil<br />
The Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan<br />
Singh has directed the Ministry of<br />
Textiles to prepare a separate policy for<br />
the handloom weavers to be finalized<br />
within the next sixty days. The new<br />
policy will be aimed at improving the<br />
work and life situation of weavers in the<br />
country.<br />
It may be recalled that the President of<br />
India, in his address to Parliament, had<br />
called for a programme of “Two years<br />
for the Weavers” to respond to the<br />
challenges faced by the weaving community<br />
through an appropriate policy<br />
response.<br />
The Planning Commission enlisted the<br />
help of a large number of technical<br />
professionals who have been working in<br />
this area and has also prepared a draft<br />
on action for this sector.<br />
Mr. T.K.A. Nair, Principal Secretary<br />
to the Prime Minister chaired a meeting<br />
to discuss the outline of such a policy<br />
which has to be accompanied by an<br />
Action Plan for weavers.<br />
The meeting discussed issues of updating<br />
the database of weavers, technology<br />
support, credit, skill upgradation<br />
and market support.<br />
A large number of professionals working<br />
in the area like Ms. Jasleen<br />
Dhamija, Ms. Uzramma Bilgrami,<br />
Ms. Tra Kapur Chishti, Mr. Rahmatullah<br />
Ansari, Mr. Rajiv Sethi,<br />
Mr. Willian Bissel and Mr. Adarsh<br />
Kumar attended the meeting.<br />
Government to spend Rs 105.72 crores to set up sat-phones<br />
The government will spend Rs 105.72<br />
crores on a Satellite Phone project that<br />
would connect 14,000 'isolated' villages<br />
with rest of the country in the next two<br />
years, including Uttaranchal.<br />
These villages, which have a little over<br />
100 people, are situated in areas which<br />
do not have roads. These phones also<br />
come in handy especially during national<br />
calamities like earthquakes and<br />
cyclones. Cables or any kind of terrestrial<br />
technology like WLL are rendered<br />
useless in these terrain where these<br />
villages are situated. The only viable<br />
technology that the government has<br />
seen feasible is by linking them through<br />
Digital Satellite Phone terminals.<br />
The move that is expected to empower<br />
villages and help trickle in the development<br />
process is mainly concentrated in<br />
the Uttaranchal, north east, Orissa,<br />
Jharkhand. INMERSAT or International<br />
Mobile Satellite phone terminals are<br />
already installed in remote patches of<br />
Uttaranchal, Rajasthan, Arunachal<br />
Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir by<br />
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited.<br />
The PSU which is also implementing<br />
the project to set up satellite phones<br />
have already initiated the process by<br />
setting up satellite phones in 294 villages.<br />
Base stations would be set up in<br />
these remote villages which will establish<br />
contact with the high-orbit satellites.<br />
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