National Handloom Development Programme

Brief

The NHDP is an attempt to facilitate the sustainable development of handloom weavers located in and outside identified handloom clusters into a cohesive, self-managing and competitive socio-economic unit.

NHDP has been formulated for its implementation during the financial year 2021-22 to 2025-26. The scheme will follow a need-based approach for the integrated and holistic development of handlooms and the welfare of handloom weavers. The scheme will support weavers, both within and outside the cooperative fold including Self Help Groups, etc. towards raw material, design inputs, technology upgradation, marketing support through exhibitions, creating permanent infrastructure in the form of Urban Haats, marketing complexes, etc.

Eligibility

• The scheme has several components and eligibility varies for each of these. Please refer to the NHDP document for more details.

Tenure

• 2021-22 to 2025-26

Benefit tags

• Acceleration

• Financial Support This program emphasized providing financial assistance to the handloom industries for the cluster projects, i.e., the projects where the weavers are in a formidable unit. The overall revenue of the finest that is provided to the handloom weavers is set as ₹2 Crore per project.
• General Awareness One of the key components of the National Handloom Development program is to provide general awareness among the weavers. The awareness of this handloom industry requires the knowledge of the product range, what must be the weaver’s income, the category of the yarn as well as the market demand.
• Marketing Assistance This program also provides marketing assistance, which includes marketing infrastructure development, market access initiative, domestic marketing, promotion, etc.
• Consensual Credit Certain kinds of credit are provided to the handloom weavers under the aspect of this development program, which includes the interest subsidy, margin money assistant, bunker facilitator, credit guarantee, etc.

• The scheme has several components and eligibility varies for each of these. Please refer to the NHDP document for more details.

• 2021-22 to 2025-26

Online / portal

Official application / information link: http://handlooms.nic.in/assets/img/Handloom%20Schemes/final%20book%208%20Nov%2021.pdf

Source listing: https://www.startupindia.gov.in/content/sih/en/government-schemes.html