Handloom, handicraft programme helping weavers in backward areas: NDA leaders

BJP senior leader and the party’ OBC Morcha Vizianagaram District In-charge Pasupleti Suresh Singh on Friday said that the Union government’s National Handloom Development Programme had been helping thousands of weavers to get financial assistance, raw material support, design inputs and new technologies. On the occasion of National Handloom Day, Mr. Suresh Singh and TDP leader Gutti Chinna Rao felicitated senior weaver Tutika Venkata Rao in a function organised in Srikakulam.Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Suresh said that the family members of Venkata Rao had been supplying Pattuvastrams and Talapaga which is also called as turban and headgear to Lord Mallikarjuna Swamy of Srisailam temple for the last 100 years. Mr. Singh urged the government to develop an exclusive handloom cluster in Sr