Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Weavers' Service Centre organises one day North East Festival
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 04 2022:
Weavers' Service Centre, Imphal has organized a one day North East Festival in its premises at Porompat today as a part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav commemorating 75th Year of Independence by inviting State/National awardees, handloom weavers, designers, entrepreneurs, handloom agencies, production companies, eminent handloom personalities of the State.
Dr Ksh Tama, Upadhyaksa, Imphal East Zila Parishad and Dr M Srinivasa Rao, General Manager, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Manipur Regional Office graced the programme as the presidium members, said a press release by the Deputy Director/Head of Office, Weavers' Service Centre, Imphal.
Lead Bank Manager, PNB, Imphal and representatives from NABARD, MSME Development Institute, Imphal and State Rural Livelihood Mission, Manipur also attended the function as resource persons.
Around 250 weavers took part in the function.
HK Baro, Deputy Director while delivering the welcome and keynote address highlighted the main purpose for organizing the North East Festival and also disseminated information of the major initiatives of the Government of India, Ministry of Textiles for the development of handloom sector through power point presentation.
The resource persons also highlighted various schemes being launched by their respective organizations for the welfare of handloom weavers of the state.
National Awardees (Handloom) were felicitated during the function and Pahechan Cards were distributed to handloom weavers.
Also certificates for the SAMARTH training program were distributed to the weavers who have undergone training under the SAMARTH scheme.
Leaflets containing various schemes of the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India such as Cluster Development Programme, India Handloom Brand, Handloom Mark etc were also distributed to all the participants.
And cloth samples and paper designs developed by WSC, Imphal were displayed during the function, added the release.