Telangana Minister for Transport and Backward Classes Welfare Ponnam Prabhakar has said that an action plan was being formulated to provide 365 days’ work to the weavers of Sircilla and rejuvenate the textile sector.
Addressing a review meeting at the Integrated District Offices Complex in Sircilla on Tuesday evening, the minister said the Congress government will place orders for production of Bathukamma sarees as well as polycotton fabric with the weavers of Sircilla soon. The government will supply the required yarn, he added.
He said power looms will be sanctioned to the eligible workers under the “worker to owner scheme.”
