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Handloom units and handlooms ( According to Handloom Census 2003)
Items Number
Total Handloom units 183512
Total number of handlooms 505556
Total number of operational looms 313245
Total number of non operational looms 192311
Type wise number of looms Pit loom 169700
Frame loom 29212
Waist loom 141684
Semi automatic/ Chittaranjan loom 150407
Others 2170

Number of Weavers
Total number of weavers 888115
Total number of male weavers 472367
Total number of female weavers 415748

Handloom Factory ( as of May 2008)
Number of Handloom factory registered with the BHB ( Factory is a production unit having more than 20 looms) 246

Weavers societies registered with the Bangladesh Handloom Board ( as of May 2008)
Number of Primary Weaver’s Societies 1300
Number of Secondary Weaver’s Societies 58
Apex Weaver’s Society 01
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