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The territory medication has invited applications nether the Powerloom Modernisation Scheme for upgrading three-year-old accepted powerlooms to shuttleless rapier looms and for purchasing caller shuttleless rapier looms.
In a statement, Collector N.O. Sukhaputra said the workout of providing superior subsidy was aimed astatine gathering the increasing technological needs successful the powerloom sector. Under the scheme, the Government had planned to upgrade 3,000 accepted powerlooms each twelvemonth astatine a outgo of ₹30 crore. Similarly, ₹15 crore had been allocated to bargain shuttles rapier looms oregon to regenerate the rapier looms that worked astatine a slower gait with caller rapier looms.
The Government had besides allocated ₹5 crore for mounting up a communal installation centre, powerloom shed and prime investigating laboratory, the connection said.
Under the scheme, a superior subsidy of 50% oregon ₹1 lakh per loom, whichever was lower, would beryllium fixed for upgrading accepted plain powerlooms to shuttleless rapier looms with tuck-in device. Each beneficiary could get a subsidy for a maximum 10 looms.
The subsidy of 20% oregon ₹1.50 lakh per loom, whichever was lower, would beryllium fixed to bargain caller shuttleless rapier looms oregon to regenerate the slow-speed rapier looms with caller rapier looms. The subsidy would beryllium fixed for 5 looms per beneficiary.
The Government would supply 25% subsidy oregon ₹60 lakh, whichever was lower, for mounting up a communal installation centre for warping and sizing unit, investigating laboratory, plan workplace and illustration accumulation centre.
Interested persons tin use seeking subsidy for modernising their looms done https://tnhandlooms.tn.gov.in/pms
Further details could beryllium obtained from the Office of the Assistant Director of Handlooms, Room No. 513, 5th Floor, District Collector’s Office, Virudhunagar – 626002, the connection said.
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