| Indian 
                            Textiles & Handicrafts Exports Promotion Organisation 
                            ITHEPO | 
                       
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                        | FACTS 
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                        | Facts | 
                       
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                        | ITHEPO 
                            is representing a highly national and global acting 
                            exports with an important impact on the national economy 
                            and the national textiles and handicrafts exports.
 This exports industry is producing a all textiles 
                            and handicrafts, handlooms made -ups products like 
                            textiles, fabrics, scarf, stolen, ahram (arafati), 
                            bed linen, table linen, handloom towels, dhoti & 
                            saries, lungies, cotton crepes, handkerchiefs, home 
                            furnishings, rugs, carpets and floor coverings, etc., 
                            and environment friendly and comfortable product: 
                            Textiles & Handicrafts 
                            and Handlooms.
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                        | The 
                            Textiles, Handicrafts and handlooms exports 
                            industry is: | 
                       
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                        | OUR 
                            OBJECTIVES | 
                       
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                              Organizing 
                                participation in trade fairs, exhibitions and 
                                buyer-seller meets in India and Abroad. | 
                       
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                              Providing 
                                guidance, consultancy and support to textiles 
                                & handicrafts and handloom exporters to promote 
                                textiles & handicrafts and handloom exports. | 
                       
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                              Conducting 
                                propaganda regularly and popularise Indian textiles 
                                & handicrafts and handloom products abroad 
                                though various means of publicity. | 
                       
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                              Collect, 
                                collate and disseminate trade data and commercial 
                                intelligence to exporters and its members. | 
                       
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                              Facilitate 
                                the upgrading, popularisation and adoption of 
                                technology, quality and design improvement, standards 
                                and specifications, product development, diversification 
                                and innovations, etc. | 
                       
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                              Undertaking 
                                market studies in individual foreign countries. | 
                       
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                              Sending 
                                trade missions to the foreign countries. | 
                       
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                              Bringing 
                                out useful publications like colour catalogue, 
                                colour trends catalogue, importers and exporters 
                                directories etc. | 
                       
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                              Laying 
                                down standards of quality and packaging in respect 
                                of Indian textiles & handicrafts and handlooms 
                                for export. | 
                       
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                              Approving 
                                agents, representatives or correspondence in foreign 
                                markets for continuously and regularly reporting 
                                the price, market preferences and reception accorded 
                                to Indian textiles & handicrafts and handloom 
                                products. | 
                       
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                              Undertaking 
                                or assisting in research on schemes of technological 
                                nature designed to improve the efficiency of the 
                                textiles & handicrafts and handloom sector. | 
                       
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                              Protecting 
                                weavers rights in following industries textiles 
                                & handicrafts and handlooms in the 
                                country.  | 
                       
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                              To 
                                generate funds from its members, and generated 
                                funds will be utilised into providing medicines, 
                                education, techincal trainning, seminars as well 
                                as scholership to the students, helping financial 
                                help to get marriage boys, and girls of weaver's 
                                society.  | 
                       
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                              To 
                                advise the Government, local authorities and public 
                                bodies on the policies adopted by them in relation 
                                to their effect on industry or commerce and other 
                                measure including direct and indirect taxations 
                                in so far as such policies or measure having a 
                                bearing directly or otherwise on export of Indian 
                                textiles & handicrafts and handloom products | 
                       
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                              Inquiring 
                                and investigating into complaints received from 
                                foreign buyers or Indian exporters and act as 
                                arbitrators if asked for it. | 
                       
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                        | OUR STRATEGIES  | 
                       
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                              Arrange 
                                for the participation of member exporters in the 
                                important trade fairs, organising buyer-seller 
                                meet (bsm), business missions. | 
                       
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                              Provide 
                                financial grants to the its members with market 
                                development assistance for under taking sale-cum- 
                                study tours, participation in international fairs, 
                                publicity etc. | 
                       
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                              Popularise 
                                Indian textiles & handicrafts 
                                and handloom products abroad through website publicity, 
                                advertisements in commercial portals, trade magazines, 
                                conducting exclusive hand woven shows, and through 
                                Ithepo publications. | 
                       
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                              Dissemination 
                                of trade information like market studies, colour 
                                trends, design trends, export trends, standards 
                                and specifications, Government policies, circulars 
                                etc. through publications and news letters. | 
                       
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                              Conducting 
                                workshops, seminars on upgrading technology in 
                                pre-loom, loom, post loom practices to improve 
                                quality and productivity, popularising modern 
                                dyeing practices, product innovations, diversifications 
                                and improvement, quality compliance, better merchandising 
                                practices, packaging methods and so on to improve 
                                the competitiveness of Indian textiles 
                                & handicrafts and handloom products. | 
                       
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                              Promote 
                                product innovation, diversification and improvement 
                                in the selected textiles & handicrafts 
                                and handloom products. | 
                       
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                              Providing 
                                design support to develop new designs, fabric 
                                simulation colour printouts, peg plan graph outputs, 
                                layout information and computer aided colour matching 
                                etc. to the exporters and its memebrs. | 
                       
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                              Generating 
                                and dissemination of trade enquiries for facilitating 
                                International buyers to source the textiles 
                                & handicrafts and handloom products 
                                from Indian textiles & handicrafts 
                                and handloom exporters and its members. | 
                       
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                              Liaison 
                                with Government for strengthening infrastructure 
                                facilities in textiles & handicrafts 
                                and handloom export production centres, take efforts 
                                to improve forward and backward linkages in textiles 
                                & handicrafts and handloom sector. | 
                       
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                              Serve 
                                as a link between trade and Government to formulate 
                                appropriate policies to promote textiles 
                                & handicrafts and handloom export growth. 
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                              provide 
                                its members (weavers) better life by providing 
                                better prices of its labour cost. | 
                       
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                        | Inquiries 
                            into the complaints made against exporters and take 
                            up the exporter's problems related to the buyers with 
                            respective embassies | 
                       
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