National Handloom Day: 68 percent of weavers earn less than Rs 5,000 a month
National Handloom Day: 68 percent of weavers earn less than Rs 5,000 a month
There are 31.45 lakh handloom weaver households in the country and while there are several public welfare schemes available to provide a social safety net to help with training, upskilling, health, getting a market for their products, health insurance, and more, awareness is stunningly low
Samidha graduated with a bachelor’s in mass media from Sophia College, Mumbai, right before joining Forbes India, where she writes about various startups across industries, and also works on News by Numbers–a way of news story-telling through infographics. She is also part of the web team which oversees social media and organizes various annual events for the publication. Samidha is a film buff and enjoys all kinds of cinema–all the way from cringy bollywood films to those of Tarkovsky.
