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== Information technology == | == Information technology == | ||
Salem has been categorized as a tier II city and the Tamil Nadu government has collaborated with ELCOT to fortify IT park sprawling an area of 160 acres. This has the potential to employ bevy of graduates for the progression of the state. Unemployment can be warded off to some extent with the advent of this park. | Salem has been categorized as a tier II city and the Tamil Nadu government has collaborated with ELCOT to fortify IT park sprawling an area of 160 acres. This has the potential to employ bevy of graduates for the progression of the state. Unemployment can be warded off to some extent with the advent of this park. | ||
== Textiles == | |||
The handloom industry is one of the most ancient cottage industries in [[Salem, Tamil Nadu|Salem]] district of Tamil Nadu, India.<ref name=":10">{{cite book|last=Roy|first=Tirthankar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AA3MDwAAQBAJ|title=The Crafts and Capitalism: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India|date=2020-01-28|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-000-02469-2|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{cite web|date=2019-11-29|title=Salem Cotton|url=https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/outreach/save-the-weave/indian-weaves/salem-cotton|access-date=2021-01-12|website=Isha Sadhguru|language=en}}</ref> The handloom industry is one of the most ancient cottage industries in Salem district of Tamil Nadu. Next to agriculture hand-loom weaving is considered the most important industry in Tamil Nadu as well as India. In Salem district the chief industry was weaving, which was carried on in almost every large town or village. | |||
Salem was one of the primary handloom centers of south India.<ref>{{cite book|last=Nayar|first=M. K. K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EvGvDQAAQBAJ|title=Story of an Era Told Without Ill-will|date=2014-02-24|publisher=D C Books|isbn=978-93-81699-33-1|location=|pages=204|language=en}}</ref> [[Sari]], [[dhoti]] and angavasthram are made out of silk yarn and cotton yarn.<ref>{{cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onXjAAAAMAAJ|title=Young India|date=1981|publisher=Navajivan Publishing House|isbn=|location=|pages=334|language=en}}</ref> In the recent past, home furnishing items are also woven, mainly for export purposes. More than 75,000 handlooms<ref>{{cite web|title=INDIAN INSTITUTE OF HANDLOOM TECHNOLOGY|url=http://www.iihtsalem.edu.in/|access-date=2021-01-12|language=en-US}}</ref> are working and the total value of cloth produced per annum is estimated at Rs.5,000 crores | |||
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