Power looms asked not to produce notified handloom items
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The district administration has asked power loom owners not to produce the 11 notified items in the reserve list and warned of action for violations.
Collector C. Kathiravan in a release said that to protect the livelihood of the handloom weavers, the Central government had enforced the Handlooms (Reservation of Articles for Production) Act, 1985 and reserved 11 textile items that must be produced only in handlooms. It includes sari, dhoti, towel, gamcha and angvastram, lungi, bedsheet, bed cover, jamakkalam durry, dress materials, barrack blankets, kambal or kamblies, shawl, muffer, pankhi, woolen tweed, chaddar and makhala.