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The samity can take pride on the glorious attempt and achievement in the revival of muslin industry also. Today through its constant Endeavour, the samity produces 500 to 600 count very fine muslin yarn and muslin fabrics are produced from that yarn.
The name of Late Kalicharan Sharma whose life long Endeavour caused the revival of the ancient muslin industry deserves respectful mention.
Our first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s inspiration and Dwarakanath Vishnu Leleji’s enthusiasm helped the restoration of the glory of muslin industry. Khadi Gramodyog Commission selected two places in India for muslin production, one was at the Pandura village under the district Srikakulam in Andhra State and the other was the village Basua in Birbhum district of West Bengal. Sri Kalicharan Sharma engaged himself in the production of superfine muslin yarn and soon found that the dry climate of Birbhum was not suitable for the production of such yarn. Now he chose the village Chak Islampur as his work center. Chandrakanta Lalitmohan Resham Khadi Samity gave him the scope of his research. Initially he was able to produce with his Kishan Charka 200count yarn. Afterwards he succeeded in the production of 250 count yarn, a wonder at that time with his six spindled Ambar Muslin Charka of his own making. This samity can pride that it is the nursery of New muslin. Following the ingenious path of Sharmaji many a khadi samity to Murshidabad and other district took to the production of muslin yarn and its gradual development.
In 1955 All India Spinning Competition was held in Bombay ( Now Mumbai) and the first batch of girl spinners of this samity joining the competition highly impressed the local gentlemen with their wonderful spinning of superfine yarn. The next morning all the dailies of Bombay brought out the headlines that the spinning of muslin yarn of ancient fame was a possibility and that the spinning has already commenced. In fact that day ushered in a new era of muslin spinning.
In 1957, the batch of girl spinners of this samity participating in the state spinning competition swept all the prizes from 1st to 5th and the same year the spinners of this samity won the first four prizes in the All India spinning competition held at Patna. The spinners maintained the same run of success in 1858 and 1959. Again in 1960 at Wardha the samity’s spinners bagged the best prizes to their credit. The same standard of success is still going on. In the recent years in 1995 Khadi and Village Industries Commission awarded a sum of Rs. 75,000/- in favor of the samity towards improved muslin research through Shri Pronab Kumar Mukherjee, the then Foreign Minister, and 3 spinners of this samity, one male and two female also received Rs. 3,000/- each. The samity spun 600 count muslin yarn and created an unprecedented example in the world textile history. Shri Nawal Kishore Sharma, the then Chairman of the Khadi & V.I. commission, Mumbai, while 4 inspection the samity’s programs in action on 17.9.95 could not but express his admiration for the unparalleled success of the samity in spinning and he awarded a prize to the woman spinner Kumari Amala Dhar by his own hand. Kumari Dhar is a member of the Managing body of the samity.
The samity can take pride on the glorious even that the Khadi and Village Industries Commission has honored this samity as one of the 5 good functioning institutions in the country, with a ‘Certificate of Merit’ on 10th April, 1999 in the National Convention on Rural Industrialization, in new Delhi.
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