"Evaluate active logistics delays, critical yarn supplier shortages, and border trade bottlenecks. Map supply vulnerability from artisan production through to global importer."
Evaluate raw-material concentration, transport-corridor disruption, processing bottlenecks, freight capacity, and last-mile dependencies. Map supply vulnerability from source regions through artisan production to domestic and global buyers. CRVAS tracks observed disruptions alongside system resilience, distinguishing physical supply concentration from transport failure, processing constraints, and verified logistics capacity.
Repeated flood and landslide closures disrupted Kashmir's principal road-freight corridor.
Demonstrates substantial single-corridor exposure. The Jammu-Srinagar NH-44 remains the primary all-weather connection for large freight.
Alternative road corridors provide emergency relief, but expose high-volume dependencies.
Mughal road acts as the principal alternative, but cannot independently absorb the regional logistics demand without severe congestion and delay.
The Kashmir Pashmina value chain depends on a highly concentrated biological source in Ladakh.
Geographic concentration and material-flow dependency on a single vulnerable region.
Observation: Unlike climate risk (ecological), this represents pure supply-chain sourcing vulnerability.
The large outward flow of locally produced cocoons indicates limited downstream processing depth.
Creates a structural disconnect between local cocoon production and local silk-based craft manufacturing. 750 MT cocoons produced in FY25-26 (through Nov).
Direct rail freight creates an alternative to road-only dependence for craft consignments.
The Budgam-Adarsh Nagar direct parcel service significantly increases modal redundancy, decreasing NH-44 closure risk.
Air freight provides a higher-cost but faster logistics channel for high-value regional products.
Srinagar Airport provides a critical bypass for ground disruptions. High-value, low-weight crafts like carpets and shawls benefit directly.
Independent system-wide capability assessment (DPIIT LEADS Report).
Severe episodic corridor risk exists despite improving structural logistics capability.
Modern common processing capacity reduces dependence on fragmented manual dyeing.
Strengthens quality consistency and processing resilience. A ₹2.59 Cr yarn-dyeing Common Facility Centre was developed at IICT Srinagar in 2025.
Designed to reduce seasonal availability shocks and improve material access.
Government intervention supporting round-the-year material availability. Comprises a ₹2.0 Cr Pashmina bank and ₹0.50 Cr Wool bank.
Generic logistics scores are insufficient. CKTRE will measure the actual time-to-market and reliability of craft fulfillment, telling buyers exactly what disruption looks like.
The ultimate measure of supply chain reliability for international buyers.
Measures the unpredictability of getting raw materials into the workshop.
A raw-material bank is infrastructure, but resilience is determined by how long production can physically continue during a disruption.
Tracked by specific material (Pashmina, wool, silk, dyes, willow).
Replaces arbitrary 0-100 scores with hard financial concentration ratios.
Identifies systemic single points of failure across the production network.
