The Department of Handlooms and Textiles is concerned with Handlooms, Powerlooms in the Co-operative and decentralized sector and setting up of Apparel and Textile Parks in the Garment sector. Telangana is one of the important States in the Handloom Industry. There are about 82,435 handloom weavers in cooperative fold and 32,002 in outside cooperative fold. There are about 33,829 Powerlooms working in the State. There is one Apex society which is the TSCO for marketing the handloom products. Several Centrally Sponsored Schemes as well as State Schemes are being implemented for the socio-economic development of Handloom Weavers in Telangana including schemes with matching share of Central and State Governments