Helping weavers of the state: health insurance; handloom and handicraft museum
Chief Minister's actions, Health insurance for weavers, Museums November 18th. 2007, 8:17amFollowing is an excerpt from a New Indian Express report on this.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced creation of a welfare fund that would cover 56,000 weavers of the State under health insurance scheme.
At a function organised on completion of 50 years of Boyanika, a State handloom weavers cooperative society here, the Chief Minister said a handloom and handicraft museum will be opened at Ekamra Haat.
The Government will provide Rs 40 crore during the 11th Plan period for development of handloom sector.