Current Affairs-Indian Government's General Budget 2014-15-Handlooms Trade Facilitation Centre and Crafts Museum will be Set Up at Varanasi

Handlooms Trade Facilitation Centre and Crafts Museum will be Set Up at Varanasi

The Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley, while presenting the General Budget 2014-15 in Lok Sabha today, has proposed to provide Rs. 50 crore to set-up a Trade Facilitation Centre and a Crafts Museum to develop and promote handloom products and carry forward the rich tradition of handlooms of Varanasi. 

The Finance Minister has announced to set-up eight Textile Mega Clusters at Varanasi, Bareily, Lucknow, Surat, Kuttch, Bhagalpur, Mysore and one in Tamil Nadu with a sum of Rs. 200 crore. 

The Finance Minister Shri Jaitley proposed to set-up a Hastkala Academy for the preservation, revival and documentation of the handloom/handicraft sector in PPP mode in Delhi with a sum of Rs. 30 crore. He also proposed to start a Pashmina Promotion Programme (P-3) and a programme for the development of other crafts of Jammu & Kashmir with a sum of Rs. 50 crore.