Mudasir Rashid
Ganderbal: Scores of Pashmina Handmade Weavers’ Union Tuesday staged a strong protest at Ganderbal, demanding ban on “production of Pashmina by machine manufacturing, as the production of machine hit the traditional shawl manufacturing.
The shawl weavers union urged administration to immediately stop manufacturing of shawls by machines as this type of manufacturing hit and degraded the quality production.
“The manufacturing of shawls by machines posing a threat to the livelihoods of more than thousands of weavers in district, scores of people associated with hand weavers losing their jobs to these machines” one protestor said.
The protesting weavers including youth artisans were holding placards reading: “Save Pashmina” and “Save families”. Mostly youth and women who used to be associated with handmade Pashmina have already been deprived of their livelihoods due to machine made pahmina shawls,” the protestors said.
A large number of shawl weavers has been adversely hit by machine weaving because the hand made weavers can make half of a pashmina shawl in a day while machines produce hundreds of shawls in the sqme day, which seriously hit our livelihood, the protestors said.
We urged administration to immediately stop manufacturing of shawls by machines or face strong protest if do not heed to their demands, they added.
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