{"id":540271,"date":"2022-12-02T10:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T05:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=540271"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T08:12:02","slug":"powerloom-handloom-sector-to-be-energised-with-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/powerloom-handloom-sector-to-be-energised-with-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerloom, handloom sector to be energised with solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of families depending on powerloom and handloom sector for a living in 34 weaver-dominated districts of Uttar Pradesh are set to benefit from the recent approval of the proposal for energising the sector with solar power in a phased manner.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed scheme, the general category weavers and those from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes category will get a subsidy of 50 per cent and 75 per cent respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The state has a rich tradition of textile industry for centuries with handloom coming first, followed by powerloom. A total of 34 districts of the state are dominated by handlooms while the number of handlooms, handloom weavers and weavers\u2019 cooperatives are 1.91 lakh, 0.80 lakh and 20,421, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of families depending on powerloom and handloom sector for a living in 34 weaver-dominated districts of Uttar Pradesh are set to benefit from the recent approval of the proposal for energising the sector with solar power in a phased manner. Under the proposed scheme, the general category weavers and those from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes category will get a subsidy of 50 per cent and 75 per cent respectively. The state has a rich tradition of textile industry for centuries with handloom coming first, followed by powerloom. A total of 34 districts of the state are dominated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}