| Name of the Cluster: IMPHAL East Handloom Cluster |
| IMPLEMENTING AGENCY : Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship |
| PROGRESS REPORT 2006-07 to 2009-10 (Upto May'10) |
| Amount Sanctioned:Rs.186.00 Lakhs |
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| Amount Utilized: Rs.114.01 Lakh |
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| % of utilization : 61.30% |
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| 4 Years Progress |
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Physical Activity |
Cumulative Targets |
Cumulative Acheivements (Upto May'10) |
Cumulative Targets |
Cumulative Acheivements (Upto May'10) |
Remarks. |
| A |
Social Capital Interventions |
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| 1 |
Awareness Meeting Stake holders workshop, other line department focused meeting. |
5.80 |
5.55 |
100 |
39 |
39 awarness meetings completed. These meetings organized primarily in four pockets of Imphal (East) viz. Kongba, Kongpal, Wangkhai & Thankul Avenue were to sensitize 1200 weavers in the cluster development project and oganizde them. |
| 2 |
Stakeholders Workshop |
0.20 |
0.20 |
2 |
2 |
Two workshop has been conducted to Imphal, comprising of weavers, master weavers, loom suppliers, governement agencies, bankers and wo NGOs, |
| 3 |
Cluster Mapping & Baseline Survey |
1.50 |
1.50 |
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Mapping of cluster is complete |
| B |
Marketing linkages |
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| 4 |
Buyer-Seller Meet |
9.00 |
4.00 |
7 |
12 |
Meet was organized for the weavers in New Delhi, Guwahati, Mumbai, Chennai to link up with some leading designers & exporters of Handloom products, order generated 42.5 lakh |
| 5 |
Exhibition |
34.00 |
18.00 |
22 |
16 |
Imphal Handloom Cluster was orgainzed in which 15 participated as well as 16 weavers participated. The exhibition were held at Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Imphal, Manipur, Dehradun & Guwahati. The total sales generated till April'10 Rs.74.10 lakhs. |
| 6 |
Interface with Exporters |
2.25 |
2.25 |
2 |
3 |
3 buyers showed interest and ordered Cotton Sari & Bed cover amounting to Rs.61000. ARTEED has shown their interest to keep our product at their showrooms & market internationally. |
| 7 |
Export Procedure Training |
2.00 |
2.00 |
3 |
3 |
? One export procedure training conducted at IIE Guwahati in association with IIFT, which trained 5 master weavers from the cluster. ? Second export procedure trining was conducted in Imphal which had 4 master weavers and three SHG participants. ? The impact can be availed soon by the members of the consortium & producer company. |
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Creation of Web Portal |
0.50 |
0.50 |
1 |
1 |
Created by EDII |
| C |
Financial Linkages |
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| 8 |
Meeting with the Bank Officials regarding collateral loan as per SHG concept |
3.50 |
2.60 |
46 |
30 |
186 SHGs formed, which covers 2618 weavers members and credit extended worth to Rs.15.00 lakhs. |
| D |
Design and Product Development |
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| 9 |
Designer involvement, Product Prototype, Workshop on New Product Development |
10.00 |
9.00 |
3 |
0 |
74 Total designs developed by designers, which generate sales worth of Rs.0.10 lakhs. By the appointed designer and 35 Designs has been developed by the Consultant Designer. And as a post activity the weavers are give constant training in small groups in association with WSC Imphal for maintaing quality and practice the habit of dyeing of their own. |
| 10 |
Engagement of Designer |
12.20 |
5.80 |
1 |
2 |
The designer have designed 122 designs. Alongwith a local designer has been engaged as a need for a local designer to develop commercial samples on earlier designers designs was felf in the cluster also developed some designs on the traditional motifs and designs of Interior part of Imphal. |
| 10 |
Workshop on new Product Development, preliminary training for CFC maintenance |
2.00 |
2.00 |
2 |
1 |
The designer exchanged his ideas and the techniques that is to be adopted on new designs. The market demand was also highlighted. It's also an ongoing activity along with the new product development. The length and breadth of Dupatta have been changed, the costing for Sari had been also reduced which have now gained a good market potentiality. |
| 11 |
Product Development |
2.00 |
1.00 |
1 |
0 |
New product development is under process. |
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Quality Upgradation |
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| 12 |
Dyer Workshop |
5.50 |
4.75 |
10 |
10 |
? Vegetable dyes workshop. ? Chemical dyes workshop. ? Six diff. workshops - 7 weavers & 6 dyers practiced dyeing of their own. ? Workshop with WSC- Imphal total 25 participants for 5 days. |
| 13 |
Orientation workshop of dyers at the Cluster level. |
1.00 |
0.75 |
3 |
3 |
3 orientation workshops for dyers, one each conducted in Kongba, Kongpal and Wangkhai. This one Day Orientation Dying Programmes was organized with the objective of giving acceleration of knowldege gaineb by the trainees of the earlier Dyeing Training Programmes and also to access their present activites of dyeing at their respective units. It was planned to give such orientation programme to those already trained 30 dyers but interested dyers. |
| 14 |
Training for specification in terms of size, finished product |
2.00 |
2.00 |
2 |
2 |
Modification in product and designs have been done after the feedback received by the buyers at different exhibition. Also weavers were trained on the warp, weft and count to reduce waste during production. |
| 15 |
Training for Quality Testing |
1.00 |
1.00 |
2 |
2 |
The weavers of Imphal were bought to Guwahati in two trips to train them on quality testing of finished products with the help of tensile strength, etc. The weavers will be able to practice more after the completion of the CFC. |
| 16 |
Exposure Visit |
3.50 |
1.20 |
3 |
1 |
The weavers & dyers of Imphal handloom cluster had been taken to successful cluster like Shantipur & Burdawan to make them aware of the technology available witht eh help of which they can reduce the cost and save time. The cluster visit will be soon followd by the training in weaving on jaquard. |
| 17 |
Publication of Newsletter |
2.00 |
0.55 |
12 |
8 |
Bilingual newsletter |
| 18 |
Stiching Unit for finish materials for weavers |
4.00 |
0.37 |
1 |
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Project proposal is submitted. Proposal was prepared by a consultant |
| 19 |
Publicity |
2.50 |
1.35 |
2 |
2 |
Developed Audio Visual Doc. On cluster and had also printed carry bags, catalogue & pamphlet. |
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Strengthening Existing Institution |
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| 20 |
Product Catalogue |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1 |
1 |
A product on all new and traditional designs has been developed. |
| 21 |
Handloom Mark Registration |
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1 |
1 |
One day awarness camp organized |
| 22 |
Engagement of professional employee for the association |
5.25 |
4.44 |
5 |
2 |
Fulltime basis, one handloom technologist is appointed. |
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Monitoring |
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| 23 |
Formation of C.D.C.C. and Meeting. |
1.25 |
1.15 |
14 |
6 |
?The Cluster Development Coordination Committee has been formed and 6 meeting held. ? IIE also has set up an office (Business Information Centre) at Nagamapal, Imphal to overseas the cluster activities. |
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Training |
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Providing CAD/CAM facility, Card punching Machine at Athimalaipattu. |
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Institutional Activities |
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| 25 |
Formation of SHG |
8.60 |
4.21 |
150 |
162 |
?20 SHGs & a Cooperative Society have got financial linkages. The SHGs have received a sum amounting from Rs.20,000 to Rs.50,000 depending on the operation of the SHG and the cooperative society consisting of 100 weavers have received Rs.50,000 as state and is in the process of receiving the central share soon. ? 35 gpt financial linked with MFI, no. of weavers covered 180, amounting Rs.10.0 lakhs. |
| 26 |
Market Consortium |
1.80 |
1.00 |
2 |
2 |
Formed 2 Co-operative Societies; viz.
1. Imphal East Weavers Marketing Federation.
2. Gulab Advance Centre for Emproverment & Development Unlimited. - SPV for CFC & DH Mgt. (Register under Societies Act) (Total Members are 284) |
| 27 |
GI Registration |
4.50 |
4.00 |
3 |
1 |
Documentation completed of all the three designs. State Govt. have shown interest in taking the matter of GI for registration. |
| 28 |
Handloom Mark Scheme |
1.50 |
0.95 |
4 |
2 |
Seminar was organized in association with Textile committee and TRP, FORMS have handed over to the interested weavers (4 master weavers, 27 weares & 3 co-operative societies) |
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Yarn Corpus |
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| 29 |
Corpus Yarn Bank |
8.00 |
5.00 |
1 |
1 |
Total 7 cycles completed, worth of yarn supplied Rs.34.75 lakhs, which benefited to 2000 weavers. |
| 30 |
Yarn Depot (Acrylic Yarn)1 |
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1 |
0 |
Draft proposal under preparation |
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Common Facility Centre |
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| 31 |
Establishment of CFC & Dye House |
30.20 |
30.20 |
1+1 |
1+1 |
CFC : Building completed, Installation of Machineris & Loom completed: under trial running.
DYE HOUSE : Building completed, Installation of Machineris & Loom completed: under trial running. |
| 32 |
Provide accessories to 1000 weavers replacement |
6.00 |
0.30 |
2000 |
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DPR under process. Field work for collection of details of accessories to replaced is in process. |
| 33 |
Capacity Building of Consortia |
3.00 |
0.30 |
4 |
1 |
Formation of Weavers Consortium under process |
| 34 |
Skill upgradation for local designer at cluster |
2.00 |
1.00 |
1 |
2 |
Jacquard training was arranged for 15 weavers for two month |
| 35 |
NEW ACTIVITIES |
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Mgt. Trg.for SPV of CFC & Dye House, stitching Unit |
1.00 |
0.00 |
4 |
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| 36 |
Siching unit for finish materials for weavers |
4.00 |
0.00 |
1 |
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21.25 |
18.75 |
88.24 |
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77.25 |
78.21 |
101.24 |
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48.4 |
17.05 |
35.23 |
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39.1 |
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0.00 |
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186 |
114.01 |
61.30 |
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