52 SOCIAL SCIENTIST co-operative spinning mill rose from monthly 7268 kg in 1973-74 to 41886.8 kg in 1974-75, the production being mainly coarser count of yarn. 3 Ibid. 4 Paschim Banger Tant Shilpa, 1973. 5 Government of India, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Report of the Second Working Group on Industrial Co-operatives. Also see Paschim Banger Tant Shilpa 1977. The report furnishes the rates of working capital loan per loom as follows: cotton handloom product Rs 750; silk handloom product Rs 1350; wool handloom product Rs 500. The rates up to 1974-75 were Rs 500, Rs 900 and Rs 300 respectively. 6 Paschim Banger Tant Shilpa, 1977. 7 Ibid. 8 Ibid. 9 Report of the Study Group to Review Working of the Reserve Bank of India Scheme for Handloom Finance, p 82. 10 Ibid, p 98. n Idid, p 98. 12 Government of India, Ministry of Commerce, Report of the Hi^h Powered Study Team on the Problems of Handloom Industry, 1974, pp 30-31, ls Ibid, p 39. 14 Paschim Banger Tant Shilpa, 1977. The figure has been calculated from the report. 15 Report of the Study Group on Reserve Bank of India Scheme, op cit, p 97. 16 Report of the High Powered Study Team, op. cit, p 47. 17 N Bandopadhya, A Kumar, A Chakrabarty, "Expo 79: Banjiar Tant 0 Tanti" Baramas, March-April, 1979, p 115. 18 Report on Intensive Development Project, p 1. 19 Report on the Role of the West Bengal State Handloom Weavers' Co-operative Society Limted, West Bengal State Handloom Weavers' Co-operative Society, Calcutta, Rar and Co (P) Ltd. 30 Paschim Banger Tant Shilpa, 1977. 21 Report of Study Group on Handloom Finance, op cit, p 65. 22 a) Report on Problems of Handloom Industry,"^/? jcit, p viii. The team has reco n-mended that a scheme for rehabilitation of handloom cooperatives has to be undertaken. Societies have to be classified into viable ones, those that can be made viable by supervised credit or by amalgamation and those that have to be wound up. b) Government of West Bengal, Cottage and Small-scale Industries Department M—1669. Cot (VI) / 24-43/76, 25 November 1976. 2^ For detailed of account of the two projects see Export Production Project, op cit pp 1-2 and also Intensive Development Pioject, op cit p 2.