PM to participate in National Handloom Day celebration on 7th August

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will participate in the National Handloom Day celebration on 7th August at 12.00 noon at Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan, Delhi.

The Prime Minister has always been a firm believer in giving encouragement and political support to artisans and artisans, who keep alive the country’s rich arts and crafts tradition. Guided by this vision, the government started celebrating National Handloom Day, with the first such celebration taking place on 7 August 2015. The date was specially chosen as an anthem to the Swadeshi movement which was launched on August 7, 1905 and had encouraged native industries and especially hand weavers.

This year we celebrate the IX National Handloom Day. During the programme, the Prime Minister will also launch the electronic portal of “India textile and handicraft background” – a repository of fabrics and crafts that was developed by the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT).

More than 3,000 handloom and khadi weavers, artisans and stakeholders from the textile and MSME sectors will participate in the programme. It will bring together handloom clusters across India, NIFT campus, Weaver service centers, Indian Institute of Handloom Technology campus, National Handloom Development Corporation, Handloom Export Promotion Council, KVIC institutions and various state handloom departments.

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