Way to Immersing Handloom Cottage Industry in Ambarrpur Village of Murshidabad District: A Geographical Study

Abstract

Handloom is an ancient cottage industry. India is well known for cottage industries. it plays a very important role in Indian’s economy after agriculture. West Bengal is also rich in tradition of handloom weaving. It is a part of its cultural heritage. The textile products of Bengal are worldwide famous. Handloom weaving is a heredity occupation and the weaving cannot be done by a single man, it requires collective work. Basically three objectives are taken for this study and snowball technique use for selecting the data. Here we have taken 60 respondent of the study area. The present study tries to find out the present situations of the handloom cottage industry in the study area. The entire study is based on primary sources of data which have been collected from the respondent through a survey schedule sample selection is based on snowball sampling technique and total 60 households(respondents) are selected to quantify the present condition of handloom industry in the study area. This village is locally known as “Krikor Para”. This area is very famous for towel manufacturing. In recent time people are shifted their occupation, where in past peoples of every age and sex are working in handloom but now maximum young male population are shifted from this and they go outside for earn more. Lack of government support, lack of education and training they abolish day by day.