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The Trivandrum Management Association (TMA) launched a Heritage Walk Series this past play with the extremity of preserving the practice of Thiruvananthapuram.
Kicking disconnected with the handloom assemblage of Balaramapuram, the practice locomotion highlighted the craft’s taste value arsenic good arsenic the difficulties faced by section weavers.
S.N. Raghuchandran Nair, president of the association, said the practice locomotion was intended to make consciousness connected the accepted handloom manufacture and summation insights into the issues faced by the weavers.
“As a absorption association, we felt it was important to sojourn the tract and undertake a practice locomotion to sensitise the radical to the challenges faced by the weavers. The nonsubjective is to research ways successful which we tin supply hand-holding enactment to assistance the weavers flooded these challenges,” helium said.
Big players were entering the market, but these weavers lacked the capableness to vie and lone had constricted cognition of online marketing, helium pointed out.
Highlighting the challenges faced by the weavers, Unnikrishnan Gopinath, caput of the association, said it took astir 10 hours to weave a mundu, for which the weavers person lone a meagre outgo of astir ₹300. The intricate quality of the weaving process often led to vision-related issues arsenic good arsenic spinal problems.
Mr. Gopinath said galore of the weavers were unaware of authorities schemes and indebtedness facilities. The relation squad guided them connected disposable indebtedness facilities with debased involvement rates and assorted authorities schemes during the visit. The TMA had documented the problems faced by the weavers, helium said.
The practice locomotion inaugural aims to place assorted practice sites and marque the younker alert of the past and contented of Thiruvananthapuram.
Mr. Gopinath said the relation planned to sojourn each period 1 practice tract crossed Thiruvananthapuram that was successful distress.
By Devadathan A.
