Department of Handloom today organised one day awareness camp for the weavers here at Chatroo whereat they were educated about various schemes offered by the handloom department for promotion of the craft.G M Saroori, MLA Inderwal as the chief guest inaugurated the camp wherein a large number of weavers, local people including sarpanches and panches of the area participated.The MLA Saroori, while addressing the participants, asked them to come forward and take maximum benefit from the schemes of the department. He stressed upon them for introducing new and modern techniques in the area of handloom for benefit of weavers.
Saroori directed the Lead Bank Manager, Satish Gupta, who was also present in the camp, to ensure maximum coverage of weavers of Chatroo under the weaver’s credit card scheme of the department.Assistant Director, Handloom, Vishavjeet Singh, made the weavers aware about the schemes meant for them, including the weaver’s credit card under which an inpidual Weaver can avail loan facility from the bank up to Rs 1 lakh and interest subsidy of 7 percent on a margin money of Rs.10000.Among others present were Director RSETI, Kishtwar, Vachaspati Sharma, Assistant Labour Commissioner, Kishtwar, Zakir Hussain Wani, BDO Chatroo, Seema Parihar and other employees of the department.