Centre gets handloom weavers join flipkart

New Delhi: The handloom weavers in the country are going to get the boost of e-commerce which is gaining popularity in India. Textiles ministry on Monday signed a pact with Flipkart to provide an online marketing platform to handloom weavers across the country to boost the handloom sector and empower the weavers. Flipkart will provide weavers in India online marketing platform, infrastructural support in data analytics and customer acquisition to help them get remunerative prices for their products and scale up their business. Textile ministry said that the data analytics provided by Flipkart will help the weavers focus on producing better products.