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To mark International Women’s Day on Wednesday, Textiles Minister Smriti Irani announced a new category of ‘Kamaladevi Chattopadhya National Awards’, specially for women handloom weavers and women handicraft artisans.
Noting that only one woman has so far received the Sant Kabir Award, the minister said the awards are being instituted from this year, so that women weavers and artisans receive due recognition and economic benefits associated with the awards.
The awards would be a small tribute to recognise the craft excellence and hard work being put in by millions of women working in their homes, carrying forward the torch of India’s proud handloom and handicraft heritage, Ms Irani said.
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The minister also launched a special campaign to provide MUDRA loans to women handloom weavers all across the country.
She said more than 1,700 women weavers are being given such loans, to start the campaign. Five weavers received MUDRA loans from her on the occasion.
Ms Irani launched a national campaign to eliminate the exploitative and unhygienic practice of thigh reeling in India (thigh reeling of tasar silk is usually practiced by marginal women entrepreneurs, working every day in their homes during spare time).
Ms Irani distributed replicas of the Buniyaad Reeling Machine to three beneficiaries, as a token of the launch of the initiative.
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