| Name of the Cluster: KURINJIPADI |
| IMPLEMENTING AGENCY: TAMILNADU HANDLOOM WEAVERS COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD. (COO-OPTEX), CHENNAI |
| PROGRESS REPORT 2006-07 to 2009-10 (Upto May'10) |
| Amount Sanctioned:Rs.141.25 Lakhs |
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| Amount Utilized: Rs.85.85 Lakh |
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| % of utilization : 66.78% |
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| 4 Years Progress |
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Physical |
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Physical Activity |
Cumulative Targets |
Cumulative Acheivements (Upto May'10) |
Cumulative Targets |
Cumulative Acheivements (Upto May'10) |
Remarks. |
| A |
Information Dissemination |
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| 1 |
Awarness Meeting |
2.30 |
2.30 |
20 |
14 |
Conducted stateholder's workshop at Cuddalore, Kumaragura College, Coimbatore, IIHT, Salem, Pudupet & Kurinjipadi; various nine cluster pockets, covering sub-clusters too & in 15 meetings.
About 3000 weavers particpated in the meeting. Collector headed the meeting, Managing Director of Cooptex & all CDCC members have also attended. The weavers response was impressive and they voiced their problems and requirements. |
| 2 |
Baseline Information Collection |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1 |
1 |
Entrusted the job with NGOs viz. GREDS, WORLD and SPEED in Kurinjipaid and Cuddalore. The baseline survey was completed by end of April'07. The total number of working looms was found only 3966. The consolidated survey report was prepared. |
| B |
Market Linkage |
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| 3 |
Buyer-Seller Meets |
0.75 |
0.75 |
2 |
9 |
9 Meets conducted at Cooptex TVPM, Chennai. The Handloom Secretary & Regional Managers, Product Managers have seen the Cluster products and booked about 5.0 lakhs worth of order for Co-optex Retail sales. |
| 4 |
Export Procedure Training |
1.50 |
1.50 |
2 |
3 |
?Conducted at Co-optex Regional Office, Cuddalore with help of HEPC, Chennai. About 70 stakeholders have been participated. The Collector headed the function. During the meeting power point presentation was made on Export Procedure & Documentation, Design Mgt. for Export Market & Handloom Market Scheme. Broacher for Export market has been prepared. ? Seminar for information dissemination for export procedure for methodology for 50 office beares with help of HEPC, Textile Committee and ECGC. The Collector & E.D., HEPC have also participated in the seminar. ?Seminar conducted with Sardar Vallabhai Patel Textiles Management, Coimbatore for 2 days - 30 stakeholders participated & benefited. |
| 5 |
Exhibition outside Cluster |
32.47 |
23.77 |
19 |
24 |
?Exhibition organized & participated in National Handloom Expo at Chennai, participated in Mumbai Cluster exhibition, participated New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Coimbaore, Banglore, Goa, EDII, FICCI ; total sales generated worth of Rs.166.30 lakhs |
| 6 |
Publicity & Documentation |
8.00 |
3.00 |
6 |
3 |
?Printed 1000 brochures for the cluster product and scheme. Installed 2 cluster Hoardings to Silk societies showrooms and 3 cluster Hoardings to Co-optex showrooms for cluster product's advertisement. One camera purchase for cluster use and documentation. ?Two new product catalogue prepared & distributed to buyers. ?It is planned to utilize this amount by shooting video film, releasing of advertisement, printing of bags and installation of hoardings. |
| 7 |
Web Portal |
0.50 |
0.50 |
1 |
1 |
EDI, Ahmedabad created common cluster website |
| C |
Financial Linkage |
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| 8 |
Financial Linkage Meetings |
1.25 |
1.00 |
5 |
2 |
? 58 SHGs formed through 3 NGOs with 878 weavers in the cluster and extended credit worth of Rs.24.80 lakhs. |
| D |
Design & New Product Development |
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Designer involvement, Product- prototype, Workshop on Product Development & New product & design development |
18.20 |
8.10 |
9 |
16 |
? The product catalogue prepared. ? No. of products designs developed till date Lunghy 40, Readymade Shirting 40, Silk Sarees 24, Silk Cushin Cover 1, Dress Materials 65, Payadi Shirting 25, Churidar 30. ? No of designs taken into production till date are Lunghy - 43, Readymade Shirts - 30, Silk Sarees - 10, Silk Cushion cover - 1, Dress Materials - 30, Payadi Shirting - 13 & Churidar - 17. ? Apart from designer, we bought 13 designs from free lance designers and 100 designs from Cooptex CAD centre & distributed to weavers. ? TOTAL 113 DESIGNS DEVELOPED |
| E |
Workshops |
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| 10 |
Dyers Workshop |
1.00 |
0.75 |
1 |
1 |
Conducted 2 days Dyers workshop at Kurinjipadi with the help of Weavers Service Centre, Chennai on Reactive dyeing and single bath bleaching & sourcing method. |
| 11 |
Orientation Workshop |
2.25 |
1.25 |
4 |
4 |
? One exposure visit to Salem for Cabinet Hank Yarn dyeing method. ? Two Orientation Workshop for two days with technical expert from Salem. ? Imparted Training on natural dyeing of Cotton & Silk through Gandhi Gram Trust, total 12 dyers from cluster for upgrading the new Dyeing Technology. |
| 12 |
Exposure Visit |
3.50 |
2.70 |
3 |
3 |
? One exposure visit carried out to Chennimalai, Bhavani & Kanchikoil areas with 40 stakeholders for product diversification of Home textiles for export market. And visit to Arni area silk handloom cluster with 20 silk weavers to study & adopt the automatic Banumoorthy Korvai silk weaving loom & technique.
? Visited to Chirlal (AP) cluster with 16 stakeholder. Studied about the Kuppadam - Korvai silk solid border weaving technology and CFC, Dye house & Consortia model.
? Visited at Kannur & Trivandrum cluster along with 20 participants and studied about consortia model with the help of WSC, officials |
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Institutional Strengthening |
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Evaluating the strengths of Existing Institutions & providing Inputs for Systems |
1.25 |
0.50 |
1 |
1 |
We engaged one expert for evaluating the strength of the existing societies and providing input for system. |
| 14 |
Management Training |
2.50 |
1.00 |
2 |
1 |
Conducted Management training for 30 office bearers in Cluster at Loyola College, Chennai; one day training was studded with Mgt., Marketing & soft skills experts who effectively combined with theory & interesting exercise & games. |
| 15 |
Handloom Mark |
3.00 |
2.00 |
3 |
3 |
?Distributed 3,00,000 nos. of Handloom mark labels for 25 Societies ?25 societies for adoption and promotion of Handloom mark labels. |
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Monitoring |
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Formation of CDCC & Meeting |
0.50 |
0.50 |
5 |
7 |
7 Meeting of CDCC conducted |
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New Activity Sanction |
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| 17 |
Formation of SHGs |
4.50 |
1.90 |
150 |
58 |
Kurinjipadi Handloom Cluster Consortium formed with 2 Master Weavers.Total 700 members associated. - Registered under Societies Act. |
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Quartely Newsletter |
1.00 |
0.40 |
4 |
2 |
?One Newsletter printed in Tamil text and realese in Oct'08. ?Second Newsletter also printed with success story of the cluster both in Tamil & English and released in June'09 |
| 19 |
Participation in Foreign Fair |
5.00 |
0.90 |
1 |
1 |
We have sent & displayed cluster silk cushion cover and silk curtain shown in the Heim Textile Fair, Frankfurt in Jan'08 and export buyers shown interest on the samples. |
| 20 |
Analysis of current / new market trend |
0.75 |
0.03 |
1 |
1 |
Rs.0.72 lakh amount is diverted from participating in Exhibitions / BSM in 2007-08, vide letter DCH Office, N.D. letter, dated:11.03.2008 |
| 21 |
Skill Upgradation in Cluster |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1 |
1 |
We have requested NIFT, Chennai to give designing training to the designers for new designes and colours development as per current market trend. Proposal received from NIFT and the fees is very high. So it was decided to to give training, through WSC, Chennai. Accordingly, the two days workshop has been conducted with leading designer / faculty from Good earth, Rahane & Design & weave for 20 designers in the cluster. |
| 22 |
Accessories (High speed bobbin, Pirn winding motorized charka, shuttles, etc.) |
16.25 |
5.08 |
3110 |
1325 |
?Providing loom accessories to 1325 sets of healds & reeds were supplied to the weavers through collector, TRP, AGM, NABARD, ADH&T and local VIP and quality of the products improved.
110 high speed motorized bobbin & pirn winding machines has been supplied to weavers for increasing winding process. |
| 23 |
Establishment of CFC |
18.00 |
17.05 |
1 |
1 |
?As approved by DCH, the existing RCC building of Singapuri society in Kurinjipadi is engaged for CFC on 10 years long lease basis by deposting Rs.6.0 lakhs in the Indian Bank. MOU entered with society. Finalized the equipments & quotations called for. Technical Committee formed and opened on 23.4.10, the second Technical Committee meeting fixed on 6.5.10 for negotiation and finalize the rates for equipments. ?The Dyes house is dropped due to Pollution Control Board Permission. The proposal for finalizing & purchasing the equipments is sent to Head Office for approval. (Premises Available) |
| 24 |
Establishment of CAD Centre |
3.00 |
0.00 |
1 |
1 |
This amount has been transferred for the setting up of CFC as per DCH office's instruction. |
| 25 |
Establishment of Common Shed (Dye House) |
3.00 |
0.00 |
1 |
1 |
?The 9 groups of warp sizers initially accepted for common sizing shed. Now during TRP, meeting with sizers, they insisting us to construct 9 sheds individually at their nearby places 3-4 K.M. distance & they are not come forward to work in the proposed common shed. Hence TRP recommended to drop the activitity and advised to utilize this amount for Dye House. ?(Due to some Pollution issues in the State) Not going to create facilite. |
| 26 |
Corpus for Yarn |
5.00 |
5.00 |
1 |
1 |
Rs.102.0 lakh worth of 60s, 40s, 100s and 2/100s good quality yarn purchased from NHDC and sold to societies as per their need. 20 Cycles completed and benefited to 1500 weavers. |
| 27 |
Medical Camps |
1.00 |
0.70 |
10 |
5 |
5 Medical camps & 2 special Eye camps have been conducted with Govt. Health dept. at Cuddalore & Dr.Agarwal and Arvind Eye Hospital, Villupuram & Pondicherry respectively. About 1010 weavers benefited. 126 Eyeglasses distributed to the weavers. |
| 28 |
Co-ordination |
1.50 |
1.50 |
1 |
2 |
Engaging two resources persons for the cluster co-ordination at Kurinjipadi. |
| 29 |
Motorized Charka |
1.00 |
1.00 |
100 |
110 |
We have requested Indian Institute of Technoclogy (RUTAG), Chennai to redesign the existing Charka model into Motorized Charka as per weavers requirements. IIT has supplied four model charkas and given to the 4 cluster pocket societies for trail prodcution & feedback. Rate received and order placed with advance for the supply of 105 motor charkas. |
| 30 |
Jacquard Machine for changing the conventional ADAI type of silk sarees weaving |
2.50 |
2.50 |
50 |
140 |
In order to change the conventional Adai type of silk Sarees weaving to increase the production & wages 40 nos. of 120 & 240 hooks Jacquard machines has been supplied to the weavers in the cluster. Order placed with advance for the supply. |
| 31 |
Imparting sizing training to the SRG members |
0.25 |
0.00 |
1 |
0 |
Arrangement being made to impart sizing training to sizers & the SHG members with the help of Weavers Service Centre, Chennai or I.I.H.T., Salem |
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2006 – 2007 |
14.80 |
9.50 |
64.19% |
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2007 - 2008 |
64.75 |
48.50 |
74.90% |
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2008 - 2009 |
32.60 |
24.40 |
71.30% |
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2009 - 2010 |
29.10 |
5.28 |
18.14% |
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Total |
141.25 |
85.85 |
66.78% |
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