Sircilla: Weavers urge TS government to bail them out of problems

Warangal: The weaver community is on a strike demanding that the power-loom units raise their wages, but the owners shut the units and halted production, leading to a major crisis in the textiles sector in the Rajanna Sircilla district. However, citing the election code, the BRS government did not clear about Rs 250 crore of bills for the purchase of Bathukamma Sarees, say the owners of the power-loom units. Apart from this, with a decrease in demand for Polyester clothes in other states, clothes worth Rs 100 crore are stocked in the power-loom units, claim the owners. “There is no clarity to date about the new orders from the government, which used to give bulk orders in the month of November for school uniforms and Bathukamma Sarees in January, with the formation of the new government in Telangana.” “With bills remaining pending with the government and clothes remaining stocked in the units without sale, it has become very difficult for the owners to run these power-loom units and pay wages to the workers. “If the government purchases the clothes and gives bulk orders again, we can sustain ourselves.” “With units remaining closed for more than two weeks, I faced a loss of around Rs 6,000”, he said.