The centre will focus on production of modern apparels using khadi and handloom clothes, the Minister for Industries, Mr Elamaram Kareem, said here on November 7 2007.
MANY thought that the government offices in the state will be a sea of white traditional clothes on Saturdays when the LDF government appealed to the male employees to wear handloom %u2018mundu%u2019 (dhoti) and their female counterparts saree on Saturday
If politics is all about acting, Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan and opposition leader Oommen Chandy should find this assignment child's play for them: The two are among a number of celebrities in the state slated to appear in a promotional camp
A fortnight after chief minister V S Achuthanandan inaugurated the initiative by gifting handloom clothes to ace athlete Anju Bobby George, government offices remained wedded to the 'videshi' dress code.
A large number of employees in Kerala turned up in offices on January 6 wearing handloom and khadi clothes to boost the market for the crisis-gripped traditional textile sector.
The new dress code for its employees proposed by the Kerala government was released at a function here by Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan by handing over a handloom dress to athlete Anju Bobby George.
A large number of government employees in Kerala today turned up in offices wearing handloom and khadi clothes to boost the market for the crisis-gripped traditional textile sector.
The LDF government in Kerala has appealed to employees in the state services to wear handloom or Khadi clothes while attending office on Saturdays in a bid to boost the market for traditional textiles, an official press release said here on January 03.
The Kerala Government on Wednesday requested government employees and students to wear Khadi or handloom clothes once a week as part of promoting them.
