National Handloom Day 2022: Date, history, theme, significance and more

Since 2015, National Handloom Day is celebrated every year to honour the handloom-weaving community.

The government has time and again stated that it is firm to protect the handloom heritage. Pic: Pixabay

The National Handloom Day has been observed on August 7 every year since 2015 to commemorate the launch of the Swadeshi Movement in 1905.

It is celebrated to honour the handloom-weaving community of India and to recognise the contribution of the handloom sector to the socio-economic development of the country.

In 2015, the Indian government decided to celebrate the Handloom Day on August 7, which is also the day on which the Swadeshi Movement was launched in 1905.

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The Swadeshi Movement aimed to inspire and organise people to take up local goods and boycott the imported goods.

The government, apart from celebrating the day in a general sense, has put in place a number of programmes.

These initiatives include the Comprehensive Handloom Cluster Development Scheme (CHCDS), National Handloom Development Programme (NHDP), Handloom Weavers Comprehensive Welfare Scheme (HWCWS), and Yarn Supply Scheme (YSS).

The programs mentioned above intend to boost the handloom sector while helping it go international.

Some of the known handlooms include Tamil Nadu’s famous Kanchipuram sarees, the Paithani weaves of Maharashtra, Muga Silk from Assam, and Mysore Silk from Karnataka among others.

The government has time and again stated that it is firm to protect the handloom heritage and also to empower the handloom weavers and workers financially.

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