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The Andhra Pradesh Government is trying to push the entrepreneurs of textile sector in a big way to make best use of the benefits offered by the state and as well as the special textile package announced by the Union Government in the budget to set up more of textile units.

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The Andhra Pradesh state government has sanctioned three handloom clusters costing Rs.2.19 crore in Anantapur district, this was unveiled by Collector Kona Sasidhar, while addressing the district level Handloom and Jute Committee meeting here on Saturday.

Joint Collector II Syed Khaja Mohiuddin, Regional Director (Handlooms) V Kamaleswara Rao, Assistant Director D Pavan Kumar, DCAO Suryanarayana, LDM Jayashankar and the APCO District Manager were present for the meeting.

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The Andhra Pradesh government finalizes the debt waiver norms for handloom and powerloom weavers. The programme would cover loans disbursed to individual weavers and weaver groups that were outstanding as on March 31, 2014. Individual loans availed by weavers, group loans, and loans of powerloom units below 5 HP and availing the 50 percent power subsidy scheme would be eligible for the waiver.

But members who have availed the benefit of debt redemption as a member of DWCRA/MEPMA or other self-help group would not be eligible under the scheme.

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The State government Excise and B.C. Welfare Minister K. Ravindra on Tuesday announced that more than Rs. 96 lakh would be spent on setting up the three common facility centres for weavers in Krishna district.

Foundation stones for the centre have already been laid at Kappaladoddi and Pedana, and officials will soon identify the location for the other centre in the district.

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Andhra Pradesh government has announced debt waiver scheme to handloom and powerloom sector. Under this scheme loans worth Rs.110.96 crore will be waived. It was one of the election promises made by the Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu along with the debt redemption scheme for farmers.

The loan waiver would be implemented during Janmabhoomi programme commencing from January 1 and the Finance Department also gave its approval.