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The Tamil Nadu Weavers’ Associations Federation has urged the State authorities to contented the Government Order (G.O.) for the accumulation of escaped dhotis and sarees astatine the earliest to guarantee employment for powerloom workers and facilitate timely organisation up of Pongal.
In a missive to Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, federation president T.S.A. Subramanian said much than 5 lakh powerlooms were operating successful the State and that 60,000 powerlooms attached to implicit 250 superior powerloom weavers’ cooperative societies depended connected authorities orders for the accumulation of escaped dhotis and sarees, garments for old-age pension beneficiaries and schoolhouse uniforms, providing employment for astir six months annually.
The federation said the authorities distributes astir 1.77 crore dhotis and sarees done just terms shops during Pongal every twelvemonth and urged it to supply escaped dhotis and sarees successful caller designs and colours to each 2.22 crore ration cardholders during the forthcoming festival.
It said that if the G.O. was issued immediately, accumulation could beryllium completed by the extremity of December and organisation could statesman successful the archetypal week of January. The federation besides urged the authorities to procure fabric done the Cotton Corporation of India and commence yarn accumulation successful six cooperative spinning mills to alteration dhoti accumulation from mid-July and saree accumulation from aboriginal August.
