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The textile industry in India, traditionally after agriculture, is the only industry in the country that has generated large-scale employment for both skilled and unskilled labour. The textile industry continues to be the second-largest employment generating sector in India. It offers direct employment to over 35 million people in the country. [1]
The Ministry of Textiles is an Indian government national agency responsible for the formulation of policy, planning, development, export promotion and regulation of the textile industry in India. This includes all natural, artificial, and cellulosic fibers that go into the making of textiles, clothing and Handicrafts.
The textile industry in India traditionally, after agriculture, is the only industry that has generated huge employment for both skilled and unskilled labour in textiles. The textile industry continues to be the second-largest employment generating sector in India. It offers direct employment to over 35 million in the country. [25]
A blue khadi kurta.. Khadi (pronounced, Khādī), derived from khaddar, [1] [2] [3] is a hand-spun and woven natural fibre cloth promoted by Gandhi as swadeshi (of homeland) for the freedom struggle of India and the term is used throughout the Indian subcontinent [4] [5] The first piece of the hand-woven cloth was made in the Sabarmati Ashram of Gandhi during 1917–18.
Lawrencepur Woolen & Textile Mills Limited, merged into Dawood Lawrencepur Limited [7] [9] Memon Cooperative Bank, it was founded in 1958 by Dawood family as an intra-caste credit bank for Memon community. [12] [10] The bank had a paid-up capital of Rs. 1 million and was nationalised in 1974. [11] [8]
Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Mysore state, sent an expert (1780-1790) to Murshidabad (Bengal) to study silk cultivation and processing, after which the silk industry in Mysore first began to grow. [5] The Nawab of Bengal was defeated in the Battle of Plassey, and later control of Bengal came under the East India Company. The company started ...
In 19s, [clarification needed] there were no factories or production outlets for woollen or cotton blankets in much of India. Unused or worn pieces of cloths like a piece of a shirt, sari and other clothes, were collected over time and with a design in mind to make a good quilt, women sew these pieces of cloth together, after cutting them into different shapes.
In the 2010 census, 4.4 million families were engaged in hand weaving. In December 2011, the handloom industry wove 6.9 billion square metres (74.3 billion square feet) of cloth. The economic policy in India aims to advance the handloom industry from the pre-independence period. The Textile Policy 1985 emphasized the promotion of handloom garments.