Tamil Nadu Zari Ltd was established in the year 1971, to manufacture zari to meet the requirement of zari of the Silk Handloom Weavers Co-operative Societies and started commercial production in the year 1974. The company is an ISO 9001:2015 certified State Public Sector Undertaking. The Company produces gold zari to meet the 60% requirement of the Silk Handloom Weavers Co-operative Societies and sell the zari marc at reasonable rate. The Company is undertaking the quality checking of Zari and Zari made fabrics by Non -Destructive Testing (NDT) method without affecting the fabric through X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analyser installed in the testing centre at Kancheepuram.
At present, 6 staff members and 49 workers are employed in the company. The existing wage settlement to the workers of the company ended on 23.11.2018. The Government issued G.O (Ms) No: 24, H.H.T&K Department (E1), dated: 17.02.2020 enhancing the wages of Rs.1750/- per month to all the workers w.e.f 24.11.2018. Based on this, new wage settlement had been arrived with the three Trade Unions functioning in Tamil Nadu Zari Ltd., and arrear wages was disbursed.
The workers of the company had raised demand for providing interim relief stating that the wage hike of Rs.1750/- per month given after 5 years is very low. Their demand is under consideration.
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The Company is manufacturing zari by procuring the raw material such as silver thread and gold which are required for manufacturing of zari. The Government of Tamil Nadu had invested Rs.34.40 lakh in the shares of the company. The company had paid so for Rs.180.37 lakh as dividend to the Government of Tamilnadu from the profit earned by it.
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In order to improve the colour and quality of Zari, the passivative chemical is being purchased from Surat and being used in the electroplating section. Based on the advice and recommendation of CECRI, Karaikudi, the following improvements were made:-
a) All the platinum wires which were used in the gilding section were replaced by perforated stainless steel sheet.
b) In order to ensure the quality of raw material i.e., silver thread, length measuring device was fitted in test reeling machines and quality parameters are monitored.
c) A high speed spinning machine with 240 spindles is procured and installed and production is being carried out.
d) It is proposed to replace two existing old type gilding machines with new vertical type machines to improve the quality, colour and luster of zari manufactured by the company.
e) A project study is being conducted by the Textile Department of the Anna University, Chennai for further improving the quality, colour and luster of the zari manufactured by the company.
ACTION PLAN FOR THE YEAR 2022–23
The Tamil Nadu Zari Ltd has planned to produce 4,000 zari marcs per month and supply to the Silk Handloom Weavers Co-operative Societies to fulfill their complete requirement.
Research and Development is being carried out to prepare the chemicals used in the electroplating process in the company, which are now purchased from Surat.
It is planned to renovate the factory and office buildings to enhance the infrastructure of the company.