Awareness programme for handicraft artisans held

From a Correspondent
GORESWAR, March 21: An awareness meeting for the cluster artisans was organized recently at Baredola village under Singalpara Gram Panchayat and Rangiya subdivision with Arabinda Deka in the chair. Also a brief iugural ceremony was held and formally iugurated by the chief guest of the function, Bhabesh Kalita, MLA of Rangiya LAC.
On the occasion, a day-long  programme was held and conducted by the invited resource persons from various  governmental departments. MLA Bhabesh Kalita in his iugural speech stated the main aim of the programme was to uplift the handicrafts artisans of the Baredola  Bamboo Basketry  Cluster  (BBBC) initiated under the Ambedkar Hasta Silpa Vikash Yoja  (AHVY) scheme under the Ministry of Textiles sanctioned recently. 
Under this project, 600 artisans will receive necessary support for development of their craft and uplift of their socio-economic conditions through a cluster approach. It will  eventually see the intervention taken up for  the benefit of the BBBC artisans of  Baredola, Singerpara, Kendua, Outol, Jayantipur  and Sahan villages under Bihdiya  Jajiko Development Block office of Rangiya subdivision.
The resource persons of various departments of the State Government participated in the programme  as Munindra Bordoloi, SDO Rangiya subdivision , Dipankar Goswami , Nikhil Chandra Das, Dhiraj Kumar, Pankaj Kumar Das, Tubul  Deka,Rajib  Saikia, Arabinda Deka, Manju Deka, Girish Deka, Dhanjit Deka and many others.

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