KVIC chairman visits Tawang to inspire people on self-reliant India campaign

ITANAGAR: In an effort to take the 'Self-reliant India (Atmanirbhar Bharat)' and 'Local to Global' campaigns of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the remote villages of the Northeast, Khadi and Village Industries Commission Chairman Manoj Kumar visited Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. During his visit from May 8 to 13, he contacted the beneficiaries of the Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) and reviewed the activities related to the ongoing khadi and village industries development scheme in Arunachal Pradesh, where he inspired the people to join the self-reliant India campaign of the PM.

With the aim of providing employment opportunities to the maximum number of youths, a PMEGP awareness camp was also organized at Tawang on Friday. The KVIC chief announced the opening of a sub-office of KVIC, Itanagar, at Tawang. "There has been a long pending demand from the people of Tawang to open an office here. It takes approximately 48 hours to reach Tawang from Itanagar. After the opening of the sub-office, it would cater to the maximum employment opportunities and needs for the youth of the district," he said. Kumar also distributed bee-boxes, pickle-making machines, and automatic incense stick-making machines to the beneficiaries in two different programmes at the border district. The chairman also inspected several industrial units set up under PMEGP at Bomdila in West Kameng district. He also attended an awareness camp under the Gramodyog Vikas Yojana and the Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) at Lohu, where a large number of youth and beneficiaries participated.

Kumar also visited the Khadi Eri Silk training-cum-production centre at Lohu. The KVIC had set up the Khadi Eri Silk Training-cum-Production Centre at Tawang last year to revive the silk industry in the state and generate local employment in a sustainable manner. Kumar also visited the Monpa handmade paper-making unit at Tawang and met the artisans associated with it. The Monpa handicraft of making handmade paper originated over 1000 years ago and gradually became an integral part of the local customs and cultures in Tawang. For the last 100 years, this handmade paper industry has almost disappeared, but it will now become functional again in the year 2020 with the help of KVIC.

Kumar congratulated the artisans and assured that 50 artisans would be sent for training at the Kumarappa national handmade paper institute of KVIC at Jaipur, so as to make Monpa handmade paper a world-class paper product. He also distributed pickle-making machines to 20 beneficiaries at Bomdila, in the West Kameng district of the state.

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