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Strategies to boost INDIAN HANDLOOM Sector

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Today, the handloom sector is considered to be one of the largest unorganized sectors after agriculture and forms an integral part of the rural and semi-rural livelihood INTRODUCTION           India’s handloom sector accounts for around 13-15% of the country’s textile production and is a   Rs 50,000 crore industry  in India . To uplift the Handloom sector govt of India  observes National Handloom Day on August 7  every year since 2015.  As per the Economic survey 2020, the textile and apparel industry contributed 2% in the overall GDP and 11% of total manufacturing GVA in FY20  and provided total direct and indirect employment of about 10.5 crore people.      As per the 4th  All India Handloom Census, the total number of households in India engaged in handloom activities (weaving and allied activities) is 31.45 lakhs. Nearly one in four weavers have not received any formal education. The majority (66.3%) o...
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Geopolitics of Indian ocean Region(IOR)

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The Indian Ocean has always had a geopolitical significance to the world. There has been a belief that whoever controls the Ocean controls the world. So, a geopolitical presence in the region will mean a race for becoming a superpower. This recognition is not a new phenomenon but exists from time immemorial. Mackinder’s Heartland Theory provides that the Indian Ocean has been a zone of conflict since the end of the Second World War. The conflict was always between the superpower countries of the time. Brief About Indian Ocean      The Indian Ocean, a body of saltwater covering approximately one-fifth of the total ocean area of the world. It is the smallest, geologically youngest, and physically most complex of the world’s three major oceans. It stretches for more than 6,200 miles (10,000 km) between the southern tips of Africa and Australia and, without its marginal seas.        It is bounded by Iran, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh to the north; the M...
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