CM's office starts using local products
Source: Chronicle News Service / Premchand Thongam
Imphal, August 29 2022:
In a bid to promote local handloom and handicraft products, chief minister N Biren's office has started using local handicraft products while process has begun to replace curtains and other fabrics with handloom products of the local weavers.
A reliable source said that the CM took up the initiative following a suggestion from union minister of state for textiles and railways Darshana Jardhosh, who visited the CM's office on August 25 to attend a review meeting of Jiribam-Imphal railway project.
The union MoS suggested that using the local products will not only act as an encouragement to the local artisans and weavers but it will also help in promoting these products to dignitaries from other states as well as foreign countries, who visit the CM's office.
From the same day, Manipur Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation Limited, under the instruction of the CM, installed Andro pots with patterns and Nungbi pots of Ukhrul, both of which are known for their historic values and aesthetic look, at the corridors and verandah of the chief minister's secretariat.
The source also said that designing work is in progress to replace the curtains of the CM secretariat with local handloom products.
Moreover, all the sofa and cushion covers in the CM's office will be replaced with local handloom products.
Designing of the products will be done in such a way that they can be easily known as local handloom products as well as attract the visitors.
Meanwhile, MHHDCL is hoping that the CM's initiative encourages other ministers, MLAs, administrative offices of the different government departments to use such handloom and handicraft products, which will definitely promote local artisans and weavers as well as their products.
Offices under different departments of the state government are spending huge amount in procuring products made elsewhere.
These products range from dusting cloth to office furniture and furnishing products.
Replacing them with local products will definitely boost the economy of the state.