22 Ventures Receive National Awards on National Handloom Day

Every year, India celebrates a special day called National Handloom Day to honor people who make beautiful cloth by hand.

On this day, the President of India gave prizes to 22 special groups and people who make handloom items.

Handloom means weaving cloth on a loom using hands, not machines.

These prizes are called national awards, and they are a top honor in India's handloom world.

Three winners got the Sant Kabir Handloom Award, and nineteen others got the National Handloom Award.

The awards celebrate great weaving, new ideas, good designs, and smart marketing.

One winner was a start-up from Assam, a state in India known for silk.

This company showed how silk can be made from plants all the way to finished cloth, by growing plants and raising silkworms.

The winners were chosen carefully by experts to make sure the process was fair.

These awards help keep old weaving traditions alive while encouraging new techniques.