FIVE ITIs WILL BE DEVELOPED AS ‘CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE’IN ART & CRAFT TRADES: CM
Jaipur, Chief Minister Smt. Vasundhrara Raje has said
that to develop skills among artisans five ITIs in the state will be identified
and developed as ‘centre of excellence’ in Art & Craft trade. In these ITIs
skill training will be provided in Fabric, Stone, Leather, Wood and Metal Art.
She said private players will be identified for each of these centre of
excellence.
Smt. Raje was addressing the round table confrence on
Development of Weavers and Artisans here at the conference hall of Chief Minister’s
office on Saturday.
The Chief Minister said weavers and artisans should be educated
and encouraged to adopt new designs and innovations. She said artisans have to
prepare their products according to the market demand keeping in view the
design and quality so that their get market for these products.
Smt. Raje said crafts and artisans can be promoted by convergence
of craft with MNREGA. She said handmade crafts have huge potential and this
sector earns livelihood for thousands of people. She said there is a need to
create support system for the craft and artisans beside developing
entrepreneurship among artisans so that they can prepare their product
according to the market demand and can do proper branding of their products.
The Chief Minister laid emphasis on identifying artisans and
connect them with artisan credit card to avail them easy creadit access. She
also asked for connecting artisans to Jan Dhan Yojana, Bhamashah Yojana and
other social security schemes.
Smt. Raje invited suggestions from the resource persons and
experts present in the conference and said that their valuable suggestions will
prove to be catalyst for the change.
Principal Secretary Small Scale Industry Shri Rajiv Swaroop
informed that efforts are being made for the upliftment of artisans through
cluster development programme. In his presentation he informed that skill
development, quality, e-commerce platform for products, excess to the market,
easy credit facility and preparation of district wise directory of artisans are
some of the main focus areas of the state government.
International Fashion Designer Ms Bibi Russel said Kota Dorea is a
proud of Rajasthan and the country as well. She had all praise for Chief
Minister Smt. Raje for the efforts she had made for development of Khadi and
Craft in Rajasthan.
Chairperson of ‘Dastkar’ Smt. Laila Tyabji, CEO of Industree
Foundation Shri Jacob Mathew, Vipin Sharma of Access Development Services, Ms.
Meenakshi Singh, Professor of IICD, Ms. Madhura Dutta, Executive Director AIACA
Delhi, Aparajia Bharti from Snapdeal, Ankit Agarwal from Flipkart and Ayush
Kasliwal and other experts expressed ideas and gave presentations.
During the conference four sub-groups were formed; first one on
Design & Innovation, second one on Branding, Marketing & e-commerce,
third one on Credit Access and fourth one on Inventory of Crafts and Directory
of Artisans. All four sub-groups discussed various issues and gave presentation
before Chief Minister in the concluding session.
Industry Minister Gajendra Singh Khimvsar, Chief Secretary C S.
Rajan, Commissioner Industry Abhay Kumar, MD, RAJSICO Shri Dinesh M. N.,
Special Secretary Finance (Budget) Siddharth Mahajan, MD RSLDC Gaurav Goyal and
resource persons from the state and country were present in the coference.
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