Based on the news published in the New Indian Express an appeal on the plight of weavers was made to the serving Chief Justice of India. Providing the details of 360 suicides of weavers after the formation of Telangana, the National Weavers United JAC made an appeal to Chief Justice NV Ramana to intervene and help strengthen the Handloom Reservation Act 1985, so that fake handloom manufacturers are brought to the book.
Prohibition of production of articles exclusively reserved for handlooms
An Act to provide for reservation of certain articles for exclusive production by handlooms and for matters connected therewith. The Act provides where an order has been made under section 3 of the aforesaid Act reserving any article or class of articles for exclusive production by handlooms, such article or class of articles shall not, on and from the date of reservation, be produced by any loom, other than handloom. The law regarding this also provides the caveat.
The Handloom Reservation Act, 1985, enacted by Parliament, prohibits the weaving of 11 types of handloom products on power looms. By violating the Act, the manufacturers were selling material claiming to be handloom.
The bench of Chief Justice Raghvendra Siingh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy in 2020 also came to the rescue of the weavers by passing interim order in the PIL filed by advocate Rapolu Bhaskar which sought direction for government to come to their rescue of weavers community facing problems due to the lockdown.
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