Problems of weavers in Telugu
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The prices of the yarn, the chief raw material, are sky-rocketing. The per-box price of yarn, which ranged between Rs 1800 and Rs 1900 in December 2009, has shot up to Rs 2600 in just four months. A weaver can make 12 sarees from one box of yarn at the rate of one saree in two days. What the weaver gets out of one saree is Rs 120. Thus a weaver gets up to Rs 1500 for an investment of Rs 2600. In other words, there is a loss of Rs 1100 on every box of yarn. This computation does not include the man-hours put in. It is this inverse economics that is doing the weaver in. It is this imbalance that is sucking the weavers into the bottomless pit of starvation, indebtedness and despair.
What more? Weaving activity calls for the involvement of every member of the weaver’s family. At least seven members have to work at pre-loom and post-loom levels and the wages are unimaginably low. For instance, the wage for spinning of the yarn is an abysmal Rs 5. What a weaver gets is Rs 120 for a saree, which takes at least two days for weaving.
Come to think of it. The wages in the supposedly-sustainable handloom sector is Rs 60 a day, while the daily earnings of an unskilled labourer in the dependency-spawning National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is Rs 125 for just four-hours of work. No wonder! Most weavers now find NREGS more lucrative.
The SJM survey has revealed that;
· Though the weavers are ready to work on the looms, the Dhanis are unable to provide enough work to them
· The loom technology is outmoded and thus has become highly non-remunerative. Loom upgradation has not taken place. There are no Jacquard Looms in Dubbak. The weavers work on unhygienic pit-looms.
· Changing customer needs are not taken into account. There has been no value-addition to the products. Most of the produce is out of sync with the changing textile choices of the customers. There is a dire need of skill upgradation and product diversification.
· The weavers lack credit facility and have no access to the market. The raw material availability too has been a problem.
· Sky-rocketing prices of the yarn have turned the handloom economy topsy turvy. There has been no corresponding rise both in the product price as well as the weavers’ wages.
· The Dubbak weavers have become dispirited and demoralized due to low wages and poverty. This has made a significant number of weavers liquor addicts.
· Most weavers live in rented houses.
· There is no protection from occupational diseases like asthma, tuberculosis, arthritis and skin ailments.
· There aren’t any social security schemes for women, the aged and the infirm.
Dubbak would have been immensely benefited if only the Government had set up an apparel park or a garment-making unit on the lines of the one operating in Sircilla.
Packages, pensions and subsidized rice are but temporary palliatives. What is needed for Dubbak is a concerted and committed engagement not just to alleviate the weavers’ lot, but also to make their work both sustainable as well as remunerative.
The SJM study has primarily identified three core areas that call for concerted action;
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The survey proved to both a shocker and an eye-opener. On several occasions, the students involved in the survey, were moved to tears seeing the plight of the weavers. Many students had vowed to continue their engagement with the SJM
Providing succour
While being involved in agitational and organizational approaches, the SJM had also not lost sight of the urgent and immediate needs of the weavers. A host of SJM activists continued to visit Dubbak to boost the weavers’ morale. Among them were SJM state co-conveners P Srinath and Narsimha Naidu.
On April 21, the SJM team had supplied rice bags to the starvation-hit weavers’ families. Later, the Chakri Charitable Trust, being run by noted film music director Chakri, had donated rice and groceries, all worth over Rs 1000 each, to 100 families. Similarly, the Male Chenchu Reddy Memorial Trust had come forward to give monthly pension of Rs 300 to 30 selected families. The employees of the Hyderabad-based AG’s office have begun providing rice to 12 selected families. On May 31, Hyderabad-based Bharati Trust, being run by Hanumath Prasad, had given Rs 10000 to Gavvvala Kalyan of Dubbak to enable him to continue his higher studies.
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What more? Weaving activity calls for the involvement of every member of the weaver’s family. At least seven members have to work at pre-loom and post-loom levels and the wages are unimaginably low. For instance, the wage for spinning of the yarn is an abysmal Rs 5. What a weaver gets is Rs 120 for a saree, which takes at least two days for weaving.
Come to think of it. The wages in the supposedly-sustainable handloom sector is Rs 60 a day, while the daily earnings of an unskilled labourer in the dependency-spawning National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is Rs 125 for just four-hours of work. No wonder! Most weavers now find NREGS more lucrative.
The SJM survey has revealed that;
· Though the weavers are ready to work on the looms, the Dhanis are unable to provide enough work to them
· The loom technology is outmoded and thus has become highly non-remunerative. Loom upgradation has not taken place. There are no Jacquard Looms in Dubbak. The weavers work on unhygienic pit-looms.
· Changing customer needs are not taken into account. There has been no value-addition to the products. Most of the produce is out of sync with the changing textile choices of the customers. There is a dire need of skill upgradation and product diversification.
· The weavers lack credit facility and have no access to the market. The raw material availability too has been a problem.
· Sky-rocketing prices of the yarn have turned the handloom economy topsy turvy. There has been no corresponding rise both in the product price as well as the weavers’ wages.
· The Dubbak weavers have become dispirited and demoralized due to low wages and poverty. This has made a significant number of weavers liquor addicts.
· Most weavers live in rented houses.
· There is no protection from occupational diseases like asthma, tuberculosis, arthritis and skin ailments.
· There aren’t any social security schemes for women, the aged and the infirm.
Dubbak would have been immensely benefited if only the Government had set up an apparel park or a garment-making unit on the lines of the one operating in Sircilla.
Packages, pensions and subsidized rice are but temporary palliatives. What is needed for Dubbak is a concerted and committed engagement not just to alleviate the weavers’ lot, but also to make their work both sustainable as well as remunerative.
The SJM study has primarily identified three core areas that call for concerted action;
·
The survey proved to both a shocker and an eye-opener. On several occasions, the students involved in the survey, were moved to tears seeing the plight of the weavers. Many students had vowed to continue their engagement with the SJM
Providing succour
While being involved in agitational and organizational approaches, the SJM had also not lost sight of the urgent and immediate needs of the weavers. A host of SJM activists continued to visit Dubbak to boost the weavers’ morale. Among them were SJM state co-conveners P Srinath and Narsimha Naidu.
On April 21, the SJM team had supplied rice bags to the starvation-hit weavers’ families. Later, the Chakri Charitable Trust, being run by noted film music director Chakri, had donated rice and groceries, all worth over Rs 1000 each, to 100 families. Similarly, the Male Chenchu Reddy Memorial Trust had come forward to give monthly pension of Rs 300 to 30 selected families. The employees of the Hyderabad-based AG’s office have begun providing rice to 12 selected families. On May 31, Hyderabad-based Bharati Trust, being run by Hanumath Prasad, had given Rs 10000 to Gavvvala Kalyan of Dubbak to enable him to continue his higher studies.
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