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GENERAL ECONOMIC SURVEY
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STATE-AID TO INDUSTRIES
The Government have given, through its Department of Cottage
Industries and Industrial Co-operatives, financial assistance on a liberal scale to individual artisans and their co-operatives. The number of societies, therefore, had grown to 54 in 1955-56. Loans and subsidies were given to weavers' societies for working and
share capital (Rs. 21,755 in 1956-57), purchase of tools (Rs. 72,520 in 1956-57), and marketing finance (Rs. 90,000) and other purposes (e.g., Rs. 10,000 given to Industrial Co-operative Association of Jalgaon as loan). Assistance was also rendered to forest labourers and labour contract societies and industrial societies.
Loans were given to backward class artisans (Rs. 8,075 in 1957-58), educated unemployed (Rs. 1,000 in 1955-56) and to other persons under State-aid to Industries Rules, 1935 (Rs. 17,400 in 1956—58).
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