looms, snuffing out 2.86 mn person- years of employment and robbing 5.54 mn persons of their means of livelihood. The way the government's concern for ameliorating poverty and unemployment works out in practice is to turn our skilled handloom weavers and other traditional craftsmen into diggers of earth and breakers of stone under employment programmes.
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