Visitor No. 58545
Progress Report 2008 - 2009 and Action Plan 2009 - 2010
Chirala Handloom cluster  
IMPLEMENTING AGENCY:  APCO, HYDERABAD 
PROGRESS REPORT  [2008-09 - UPTO July  2009] & Action Plan [2009-10]
2008-09 2009-10
Amount Sanctioned: Rs 27.50 Lakhs Amount Proposed - 34.90 lakhs 
Amount Utilized: Rs 12.15 lakhs 
% Utilisation  44.33
  2008-09  2009-10
[Proposed]
Sr. No.  Physical Activity               Physical Target [Freq/No.] Phy.Achievement [Apr.08-July.09] Fin.  Target [In Rs Lakhs] Fin. Achievement Apr.08-July.09] Remarks  Physical
Target [Frquency / No:]
Financial Target
[Rs. In lakhs]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10
A Financial linkage / meetings              
2 Meetings with Bankers / Financial institutions  10 8 1.50 1.51 Seven awareness meetings were conducted covering 350 weavers and one bankers meeting conducted and also regularly meeting the concerned bank managers. Activity Continued. 2 0.20
B MARKETING               
4 Market Survey by Consultant               
5 Buyers and Sellers meet with in the cluster 5 4 10.00 6.16 One BSM at Chennai, Three Exhibition has conducted at Hyderabad, and two Exhi. cum BSM's at Ahmedabad and Bangalore and achieved sales of 62.00 lakhs. 6 10.00
6 Exhibition cum Sales outside the cluster           - -
7 Interface with Exporters / workshops              
8 Mobile sales for 45 days in a year 1 0 1.00 0 Activity Continued. - -
9 Publicity - Brochures & Hoardings and Local Channels 3 2 1.50 0.36 Brouchers has been prepared and publicty done through local news papers about the cluster development programme and its progress was given under 2007-08 activity.
Activity Continued.
1 1.00
10 Web-Portal              
C Product Development / Diversification              
12 Engagement of designer 1 1 3.60 0.40 Sri. K.Umamaheswarao has resigned from 12 th March,2009. There is no desinger at present for the cluster.Activity Continued. 1 3.60
13 Engaging 2 local designers / experts for monitoring transformation of designs into sample products              
14 Product Development by converting paper designs into woven products. 1 1 5.00 1.18 New designs and products are developing regularly with the designs developed by the designer  in the cluster and WSC, Vijayawada and local designers.Umamaheshwar Rao had developed 22 paper designs. 4 have been convered into fabric and other 4 are on looms for sample development. - -
D Replacement of Accessories - Healds, Reed              
16 Quality improvement through replacement of important accessories like healds and reed set of existing 500 looms @ Rs.1000.00 per loom 100 0 1.00 0 One weavers SHG's MAC Society registration is under progress, and this component is utilised for them. Activity Continued.  - -
E TRAINING / WORKSHOPS              
18 Workshop on Natural Dyeing              
F Institutional strengthening              
20 Formation of SHGs and New Co-operative societies 50 65 2.00 1.83 Formation of SHG's is regular process and 9 co-operative societies registration is also under progress.Activity Continued. 10 1.50
21 Formation of Association / Consortium with SHGs, Master weavers & Co-operative societies 1   0.20 0.2 Formation of one SHG's assosciation (MACSociety) registration is under progress.Activity Continued. 50 0.50
22 Exposure visit to successful clusters (Kanoor, Trivandrum, Karur and Trichy)              
23 Awareness meeting               
24 Corpus for Raw Material              
25 Yarn Corpus – NHDC [MGPS]         Activity Continued. 1 5.00
26 Monitoring              
27 CDCC meetings 4 1 0.20 0.04 CDCC meetings was conducted under the Vice Chairmanship at Chirala on 28-3-2009. Activity Continued. 2 0.10
G Establishment of CFC              
29 CFC              
30 Dye House         Dye House - Subject to submission of DPR in PPP mode 1 6.00
31 Product Catalogue  1 1 0.50 0.42 It is ready and shall be produced during the review meeting. Activity Continued. 1 0.50
32 Handloom Mark Registration  1 1 1.00 0.05 Handloom Mark awareness meeting has been conducted on 30th March 2009. Activity Continued. 5 0.50
H       New Activities Proposed for the year 2009-10    
33           Corpus for CFC& Dye House for keeping Dyes, Chemicals, zari etc 1 2.00
34           CATD with card punching machine in CFC and Dye House 4 4.00
  GRAND TOTAL      27.50 12.15 GRAND TOTAL    34.90