Automatic Shuttle Loom

This of course includes 120000 shuttleless looms (80% second hand) and may be 40000 automatic shuttle looms. The technology upgradation scheme of the Government could not upgrade the technology of the decentralised powerloom sector in a big way because over the period of last 13 years only 90000 shuttleless looms were added (say @only 7000 looms per annum on an average). Due to presence of large number of second hand shuttleless looms, 50% of which are over 30 years old, we can guess how much the modernisation had really taken place.