chapter viii wool & wollen textiles industry - Ministry of Textiles

annual report 2011-12
CHAPTER- XVI
TEXTILES IN NORTH EASTERN REGION
HANDLOOM
North Eastern Region has
the highest concentration of
Handlooms in the country. In the
North East, 90% of the handloom weavers
households are weaver households.
The allied worker households are mostly
found in the states outside the region,
and form 29% of the total handloom
worker households in these States. The
North Eastern States have predominantly
female (99%) adult work force.
The Weavers’ Service Centres, set up at
Guwahati, Agartala and Imphal function
as the Nodal Centre for development of
designs and dissemination of information
to the weavers in the region. The IIHT set
up at Guwahati, caters to the requirements
of the handloom sector for technically
qualified manpower.
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No.
Name of the
State
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A special dispensation has been made
for the North Eastern States under the
Integrated Handlooms Development
Scheme. In respect of these States, the
grant portion towards basic inputs of the
scheme is shared between Centre, State
Governments and the implementing
agencies in the ratio of 90:5:5 respectively
whereas for General States, it is in the
ratio of 70:20:10 respectively.
During 2010-11, 30 Clusters were
sanctioned in the NER and a sum of
Rs.19.47 crore was released, which also
includes second installment of earlier
sanctioned projects. In addition, 257
Group Approach Projects were sanctioned
and a sum of Rs.8.18 crore was released,
which also includes second installment of
earlier sanctioned projects. Physical and
Financial progress in NER during 2009-
10 to 2011-12 (upto December 2011) is
given at table 16.1 to 16.4
Table 16.1
State-wise Number of Clusters taken up under IHDS in NER
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
(upto Dec’ 11)
No. Amount No.
No.
released
(Rs.in lakh)
Amount
released
including
2 nd instalment
(Rs. lakh)
Amount
released
including 2 nd
/3 rd instalment
(Rs. lakh)
Total 2007-08 to
2011-12
No. Amount
released
(Rs. lakh)
1 Arunachal Prd. 3 92.76 -- 59.80 4 315.65 19 654.93
2 Assam 1# 46.25 12 467.58 12 201.12 39 856.26
3 Manipur 1# 23.75 6 652.31 - 431.21 39 1567.89
4 Meghalaya 2 121.19 -- 95.40 1 78.22 8 375.93
5 Mizoram 1 15.65 1 15.58 - 39.33 2 70.55
6 Nagaland 10 257.57 5 561.43 4 461.90 33 1509.80
7 Sikkim -- -- -- -- - - 0
8 Tripura 5 84.93 6 95.34 - 310.47 25 657.27
Total NER 21 642.10 30 1947.44 21 1837.90 165 5 6 9 2 . 6 3
# Sanctioned in 2006-07