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NAGAON: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), in association with local implementing agency Gramya Unnayan Santha, organized a valediction-cum-certificate distribution function under the Livelihoods and Enterprise Development Programme on terracotta, pottery craft at Konuwamari village in Bajiagaon Development Block on Thursday. Deputy Commissioner Narendra Kumar Shah, Khurshid Alam Ansari, LDM, Nagaon, and other dignitaries attended the programme. During the programme, over 90 women participants from various rural Self-Help Groups were presented toolkits as well as certificates of participation in various training programmes on terracotta and pottery craft under NABARD-sponsored Livelihoods and Enterprise Development Programme.
While addressing the occasion, Deputy Commissioner of Nagaon, Narendra Kr Shah appreciated the efforts of NABARD for organizing such training programmes and advocated that such training programmes for development of rural artisans would enhance the zeal and enthusiasm of the rural artisans to generate self-employment among the rural women artisans. He also urged the line departments as well as bankers to extend their financial and other support to those rural entrepreneurs.
Rajendra Perna, DDM, NABARD shared several NABARD-sponsored training programmes on various activities like detergent and phenyl making, mushroom cultivation and processing, artificial jewellery craft, beautician technique, sanitary pads and bag making, etc. and also intimated that the government agency had already initiated the process of GI Registration of various local products like japi, Sarthebari metal craft, Majuli manuscript painting, Majuli mask, water hyacinth craft, Vrindavani Vastra, Bihu dhol, Asharikandi terracotta etc.
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