The government has taken an initiative to set up three handloom service centres in different loom intensive areas of the country for providing pre-weaving and post-weaving related
services to the weavers through some 1.40 lakh handlooms.
A project titled ‘Establishment of 3 Handloom Service Centres inDifferent Loom Intensive Areas’ was recently approved by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council.
Bangladesh Handloom Board under the Ministry of Textiles and Jute will implement the project at a cost of Tk 50.54 crore by December 2015. The project cost will be borne entirely from the government exchequer.
The project area covers Kalihati upazila of Tangail, Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj and Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia. Once the project is completed, it would directly employ some 165 people and help create employment opportunities for another 4 lakh handloom weavers.
-With New Age input
