Over Rs. 96 lakh would be spent on setting up three common facility centres for weavers in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, foundation of which have already been laid at Kappaladoddi and Pedana. Location for the other centre in the district will be identified soon.

Two mega showrooms would also be opened in Visakhapatnam and Tirupati soon to enable handloom weavers to sell their products.

Loan waiver to the tune of Rs. 110 crore announced by the Telugu Desam Party president, N. Chandrababu Naidu would be extended to beneficiaries during a special programme to be held in Vijayawada soon, according to official sources.

Handloom department assistant director Ch. Laxmana Rao said that at the Cheneta Hoyalu’, a district-level handloom exhibition which will run till December eight at the Sri PKR Teachers Guild Home in Machilipatnam has a total of 34 Weavers’ Co-operative Societies from seven districts displaying handloom products.