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Gujarat
Handloom & Handicrafts Development
Corporation Limited
SCHEMES/PROMOTIONAL PROGRRAMMES/ANNUAL FLOW
Scheme of sales and promotion through
exhibition:- General Plan.
Corporation is organizing 40 to 50 exhibitions
within the Gujarat State and outside the Gujarat
State. exhibitions and artisans are invited in
the exhibition to give live demonstration of
their respective crafts. The main objective of
organizing such exhibitions is to create
awareness of Gujarat Handicrafts and Handlooms
and its reach to elite clientele of contemporary
living. The artisans/weavers are being paid
Rs.100/- per day, boarding and lodging during
the exhibition and to & fro traveling expenses.
The products which are manufactured by the
artisans/weavers are being sold in these
exhibitions.
To provide raw material for employment :
Special Component Plan
Handloom and handicrafts artisans living in
interior villages, economically weaker
weavers/artisans are facing difficulties to
purchase raw materials. To keep these
weavers/artisans Corporation is providing raw
materials, new design samples through the
production, purchase Centres and sales outlets,
so as to produce high and better quality
products. These products are being purchased by
paying remunerative prices to the
weavers/artisans and these are being sold
through the Garvi-Gurjari outlets. Corporation
is making efforts to provide employment by
supplying raw materials.
Employment to the tribal artisans through
training : Tribal Plan
To increase the population of tribal
artisans, to keep alive the defading tribal
crafts, to produce the products according to the
market needs, the tribal artisans are being
imparted training. During the training artisans
are being paid stipend, raw materials and tool
kits are also supplied
Employment through tribal Mela : Tribal Plan
Corporation is implementing the Government
Plan. Tribal craft is not achieved the frame in
the country. So Corporation is organizing tribal
melas, to take the tribal craft products to the
customers, so as to produce as per the customers
needs to boost the sales. The artisans are
invited to participate in the Melas to sell
their products directly to the customers. The
traveling expenses, lodging and boarding and
work loss compensation is being paid to the
artisans who participate in the Melas.
Artisans Security Scheme
Handicrafts artisans are covered under the
insurance scheme. The artisans have to payonly
Rs.40/- annual premium. The insurance company
pay's Rs.20,000/- on the natural death and
Rs.50000/- on accidental death.
Handloom artisans has to pay Rs.65/- annual
premium. The insurance company pay's Rs.50000/-
on natural death and Rs.80,000/- on accidental
death. Government of India and State Government
contribute towards extra premium.
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