From Rs 18 lakh loan to Rs 1 crore business: How ODOP scheme helped Barabanki weavers
- Barabanki weavers Javed and Zafar Ahmed grew their family business to around ₹1 crore in annual turnover.
- The brothers received an ₹18 lakh loan under the government’s One District, One Product scheme in 2018.
- They used the loan to install eight powerlooms, expand production and create work for around 20 weavers.
- Their cotton stoles and scarves now reach buyers abroad, including a ₹30 lakh order for 20,000 stoles from Walmart in 2021.
Source: indiatoday.in
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