After dumping the Handloom and Handicrafts Boards, the Central Govt has now scrapped the Powerloom Board along with the Cotton Advisory Board and Jute Advisory Board. Identical notifications say it has been done in consonance with the "Indian Government's vision of ‘Minimum Government and Maximum Governance’, a leaner Government Machinery, and the need for systematic rationalisation of Government bodies". Anjali Ojha has more...