Telangana’s weaving sector is facing severe distress with loom closures, rising debts, migration and suicides. Weavers blame the government for unfulfilled pension promises, scrapping Bathukamma saree orders and a stalled loan waiver, causing job losses and pushing thousands out of the profession

Hyderabad: Insufficient livelihood, mounting debts, closure of looms, migration of weavers in search of survival and even suicides sum up the deep crisis in the weaving community over the last two years in the State.

The Congress party had promised a monthly pension of Rs 4,000 to weavers in its election manifesto . After two years in power, with not even a trace of that promise being fulfilled, thousands of weavers have quit the profession, while a few have taken extreme steps, ending the

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