Economics of textile cooparatives

India has a rich cultural heritage with the art of best hand-spinning, hand-weaving, hand-printing, hand-dyeing hand finishing hand-embroidory and colour chemistry. It has a glorious past and legacy of unrivalled craftsmanship. Decentrlised textile indus try has a long history which dates back to the Epic Age. Despite its glorious past the handloom industry passed through many vicissitudes, setbacks down the centuries. Many economic, political and technological factors landed the textile industry in dol drums. The vulnerable, poverty striken, illiterate weavers became helpless, unorganised and unemployed.

It is the cooperative sector which pio neered to organise the weavers and to preserve the traditional industry. The cooperative organisations have been form ed for the resuscitation of the weaver artisans. The study, therefore, attempts to cover all the textile organisations in coo perative sector including apex bodies and federations. The emphasis of the Five Year Plans, State and Central support, role of Central financing agencies like RBI, NCDC, NABARD etc., have been analysed. In the light of the detailed study of the subject, their growth, working, manage ment and financial performance and their problems have been identified and offered suitable them. remedial measures to correct

Despite the design and fashionable character of our civilisation, literature on textile industry particularly the decentrlis ed textiles is scanty. In this book the author makes an attempt to examine the much neglected aspects of cooperative sector in the industry. This book aimed to introduce the reader to the vital problems of the sector facing today. The present pioneered and indepth study of coopera tive textiles is the outcome of the author's deep thinking and painstaking field work It is an evalutory work. It is among the very few books which examines the subject from a grass root level. The book "Econo mice of Textile Cooperatives" is thus, most useful to the planners. policy makers, administrators scholars, researchers and students in the field of this industry. Government, for all cooperators and as a compendium on the subject of Textile Cooperatives.