{"id":4480,"date":"2019-08-08T08:17:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T08:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2019-08-08T08:17:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T08:17:31","slug":"5th-national-handloom-day-celebrations-on-august-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/5th-national-handloom-day-celebrations-on-august-7\/","title":{"rendered":"5th National Handloom Day celebrations on August 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 5<sup>th<\/sup> National Handloom Day will be celebrated tomorrow across the country. Union Minister of Textiles and Women and Child Development, SmritiZubinIrani, will preside over a function at VigyanBhawan in New Delhi to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Petroleum\n&amp; Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, and Minister of State for Animal\nHusbandry, Dairying &amp; Fisheries and Micro, Small &amp; Medium Enterprises,\nPratap Chandra Sarangi, will also be present on this occasion.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main event will be\nheld in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Bhubaneswar has been chosen as the venue for the\nmain event due to its rich tradition of Handlooms. More thanfifty percent of\ntotal weavers population of India resides in Eastern and North Eastern Regions\nand most of them are women. The prime objective of holding the National\nHandloom Day in Bhubaneswar is to empower women and girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following\nactivities will be undertaken all across the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Distribution of Pehchan Cards and Yarn Passbooks<\/li><li>Distribution of MUDRA loan<\/li><li>Distribution of lighting units and certificates for\nconstruction of work sheds.<\/li><li>National Handloom Day to be observed at Weavers\u2019\nService Centres in different States.<\/li><li>At 16 NIFT Campuses and Handloom Mela and\nexhibition, workshops, panel discussions, special stalls for handloom products\nat Gandhinagar and Kolkata NIFT campuses. <\/li><li>Live broadcast of discussion on Twitter from\ndigital studio of IMG Reliance, involving young designers and prominent\npersonalities from the handloom sector. <\/li><li>Symposium at Crafts Museum in New Delhi by Fashion\nDesign Council of India with participants from Ministry of Textiles, master\nweavers, textile designers, fashion designers and textile experts.&nbsp; <\/li><li>Workshop through IGNOU\/NIOS to impart information\nabout educational opportunities to weave and their wards.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Handloom\nDay is observed annually on 7<sup>th<\/sup> August to honour the handloom\nweavers in the country and also highlight India\u2019s handloom industry. National\nHandloom Day seeks to focus on the contribution of handloom to the socio\neconomic development of the country and also increase the income of weavers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Union Government had declared 7<sup>th<\/sup> of\nAugust as the National Handloom Day in July 2015 with the objective of\ngenerating awareness about the importance of the handloom industry to the socio\neconomic development of the country. August 7 was chosen as the National\nHandloom Day to commemorate the Swadeshi Movement which was launched on this\nday in 1905 in Calcutta Town Hall to protest against the partition of Bengal by\nthe British Government. The movement had aimed at reviving domestic products\nand production processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first National Handloom Day was inaugurated on\n7<sup>th<\/sup> August 2015 by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, at the\ncentenary of Madras University in Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 5th National Handloom Day will be celebrated tomorrow across the country. Union Minister of Textiles and Women and Child Development, SmritiZubinIrani, will preside over a function at VigyanBhawan in New Delhi to mark the occasion. 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