Awareness on cluster development prog held
Source: Chronicle News Service
Thoubal, November 04 2022:
Under the aegis of National Handloom Development Programme (NHDP), Ministry of Textiles; Manipur Apex Handloom Weavers and Handicrafts Artisans' CS Ltd (AWAS) organised an awareness programme on cluster development programme (CDP) at Wangjing Ningthou Laibung on Friday.
Conducted as a part of implementation of Wangjing Tentha CDP, the awareness programme was attended by Manipur Development Society (MDS) chairman and Wangjing Tentha MLA Paonam Brojen, AWAS president A Ronika, retired headmaster Tekcham Rameshwar, retired lecture T Babulan and Manipur Rural Bank Wangjing branch manager Ksh Surjitkumar as presidium members.
Speaking at the event, MLA Brojen assured of providing every benefit to women beneficiaries and further appealed to take advantage of the knowledge shared by instructors of handloom cluster as there is lack of handloom organisation in the constituency.
He highlighted numerous schemes launched by the government for development of the handloom sector in the state.
Later, weaver cards were distributed to the beneficiaries.