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The minister said that the handloom weavers or agencies are facilitated to sell their products online and 23 e-commerce platforms have been associated with the Ministry of Textiles under a policy framework
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As of now, 1,49,429 weavers and handloom organisations have been on-boarded on the GeM portal, including 6,252 weavers already on-boarded on the date of initiation of the exercise, said Minister of State for Textiles Darshana Jardosh in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
The minister said that the handloom weavers or agencies are facilitated to sell their products online and 23 e-commerce platforms have been associated with the Ministry of Textiles under a policy framework.
In addition, steps have been taken to onboard handloom weavers or agencies on Government e-Marketplace (GeM) to enable them to sell their products directly to various government departments and organisations, the minister added.
She said in the reply that the ministry has been providing need based financial assistance across the country from, 2015-16 to 2021-22 to 508 handloom clusters, based on the proposals received from State/UT governments.
Total 8 mega handloom clusters have been provided financial assistance for different projects in the country, namely Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Sivasagar (Assam), Virudhunagar (Tamil Nadu), Murshidabad (West Bengal), Prakasam and Guntur districts (Andhra Pradesh), Godda and neighbouring districts (Jharkhand) Bhagalpur (Bihar) and Trichy (Tamil Nadu), she said.
Besides, one mega handloom cluster at Imphal (East) in Manipur State has been approved in the current year 2021-22, she added.