{"id":3197,"date":"2025-11-06T16:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:57:05","slug":"100-more-modern-looms-for-carpet-weavers-sanctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/100-more-modern-looms-for-carpet-weavers-sanctioned\/","title":{"rendered":"100 more modern looms for carpet weavers sanctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>SRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 06:<\/strong>\u00a0Close on the heels of distribution of 100 Modified Modern Steel Looms amongst the carpet weavers, the Union Ministry of Textiles has sanctioned\u00a0\u20b951.00 lakh for procurement and distribution of 100 more looms under the \u2018Wool Processing Scheme\u2019 of the Central Wool Development Board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each loom costing\u00a0\u20b951,000 has been specially designed by the Indian Institute of Carpet Technology (IICT), Srinagar, which provides a suitable back-rest and comfort seating arrangement for the weavers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sharing details in a press statement issued here today, Director IICT, Srinagar, Zubair Ahmad, thanked the Ministry of Textiles for sanctioning additional 100 Modified Modern Steel Carpet Looms amongst the active weavers for the current financial year 2025-26. \u201cThese looms are modified, keeping in view the health concerns of the weavers, who sit for long hours for weaving of the world-famous hand-knotted Kashmir carpets,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Director IICT further stated that the Ministry of Textiles has already released the first tranche of\u00a0\u20b930.60 lakh for procurement of the looms. \u201cOnce the UC for first instalment is issued, the remaining two instalments shall also be released for procurement and distribution of looms amongst the intended\u00a0beneficiaries,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Handicrafts and Handloom, Kashmir, has advised the interested carpet weavers to approach the offices of Assistant Director Handicrafts\/ Handloom, in Kashmir Division for the completion of the requisite formalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 06:\u00a0Close on the heels of distribution of 100 Modified Modern Steel Looms amongst the carpet weavers, the Union Ministry of Textiles has sanctioned\u00a0\u20b951.00 lakh for procurement and distribution of 100 more looms under the \u2018Wool Processing Scheme\u2019 of the Central Wool Development Board. Each loom costing\u00a0\u20b951,000 has been specially designed by the Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}