Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal on November 20 announced setting up a mega handloom cluster at Nongpok Kakching, the native village of Olympic silver medalist Saikhom Mirabai Chanu in Manipur’s Imphal East district.
- The Union minister also announced setting up of a handloom and handicraft village at Moirang in Bishnupur district , where the INA hoisted the tricolor flag for the first time in Indian soil.
- Announcing the setting up of the mega handloom cluster, Shri Goyal informed that Ministry of textile is setting up the mega cluster at an estimated cost of Rs 30 crore under the National Handloom Development Programme (NHDP). He also expressed his desire for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lay the foundation stone of the project.
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