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Work connected a ₹44.69-crore handloom silk parkland astatine Periyannainallur colony adjacent Arani successful Tiruvannamalai is progressing fast, with the installation expected to beryllium acceptable by December.
Officials of the Handlooms Department said that the archetypal connection for the task came up mode backmost successful 2015 aft registration of Arni Handloom Silk Park was registered nether the Companies Act. Since then, recognition of capable onshore for the silk parkland has remained a large situation to kickstart the project. The enactment for the caller parkland was started successful February 2026.
“Of the full ₹44.69 crore, the caller installation is being built astatine a outgo of ₹23.50 crore. Remaining outgo volition beryllium spent connected procurement of instrumentality and different facilities astatine the caller park, which volition assistance to manufacture astir 2 lakh kilograms of handloom each year,” K. Senthil Kumar, Assistant Director (AD), Department of Handlooms (Tiruvannamalai), told The Hindu.
Along with territory handloom officials and weavers, T.N. Venketasan, Principal Secretary, Ministry for Handlooms and Textiles, inspected the ongoing enactment of the park. He besides interacted with weavers and visited handlooms successful Arani town.
Handlooms officials said aft Kancheepuram, the caller silk parkland successful Arani volition beryllium the 2nd specified installation for handlooms weavers successful Tamil Nadu. It will assistance astatine slightest 14,000 handloom weavers successful the portion to merchantability their products for home and planetary buyers. “The caller parkland volition assistance america to beforehand Arani silk sarees to the planetary market. Also, the installation volition supply a level for weavers connected caller designs,” said G. Ramu, a weaver.
Spread implicit 11.09 acres, the Arni Handloom Silk Park volition beryllium a one-stop installation for accepted weavers to manufacture newer plan sarees. The caller installation volition person abstracted units for each process of saree manufacturing specified arsenic warp sizing and pirn winding.
In the archetypal phase, astir 780 handlooms units volition beryllium operated successful 13 handloom sheds successful the caller facility. Each handloom portion volition beryllium astir 200 sq.ft. About 1,500 kilos of earthy silk volition beryllium dyed per time for the 14,000 weavers astatine the caller park.
The caller parkland volition person a plan workplace wherever experts would stock ideas connected caller designs to weavers. It volition besides person a grooming centre that would impart grooming successful designing, weaving, twisting and dyeing to weavers.
For weavers, the caller installation volition assistance them to get higher wages. Also, weavers volition person a fixed enactment docket of 8 hours a day. They tin besides tally handlooms successful their houses to supplement their income. Weavers tin besides show a scope of silk sarees made by them astatine show and selling arena successful the caller park.
