MLA Bithika Dev seeks handloom training centre in Silchar, like the one in Sualkuchi in upper Assam. In a bid to empower the women of this valley she has made this demand. She further added that this would improve the socio economic standard of this place based on the fact that a large section of the women belonging to the working class are actually waged labourers.Mrs. Dev further went on to say that the establishment of a handloom training centre here will also improve trade relations with the Brahmaputra valley. Moreover the tradition of the Assam Silk which is fast dying today will find a fresh air to breathe.
She also criticized the policies of the commercial units of paying very poorly to these weavers and sympathetic on their plight. But opponents and analyst see this to be a move to lure the female voting fraction of her constituency. source: observer247
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