Jahrkhand CM launches website for online shopping of tussar

Chief Minister Raghubar Das today inaugurated the Jharkhand Fashion Festival here and launched a website to help online shopping of tussar.

The state produces 82 per cent of the tussar available in the country but due to lack of guidance the raw tussar are being used by others.

The state government was committed to give a filip to tussar industry and help it in every way, he said.

Jharcraft, a state government undertaking for the development of silk textiles and handicraft should work in this area and develop its brand, he added.

Tussar products and tussar clothing should change with the changing times so that Jharkhand can keep its identity in the tussar sector at the world level and become a strong market force, an official release said quoting the chief minister.

He said three textile industries has begun work and more investments would come.

Stating that 62 per cent of the raw lac is produced in Jharkhand, he said Mukhyamantri Udyami Board is being set up in which women of 32,000 villages would be connected and there is a plan to connect 4.8 lakh women and train them. Rs 700 crore would be spent in training the women to make lac products.

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