Office of the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India through Ambedkar Hastshilp Vikas Yojana (AHVY) component of National Handicrafts Development Programme (NHDP) Scheme envisages supporting viable craft clusters across the country through formation of Producer Companies and subsequently providing need-based intervention like design and technical development workshop, distribution of tool-kits, exhibition, craft demonstration programme, seminar to integrate them into the financial mainstream. The Producer Companies thus formed with the artisans as members is to make the artisans self-reliant.

The state-wise details of programs implemented in craft clusters are as below:

Year	Number of States covered	Number of Programme Implemented
2022-23	12	318
2023-24	21	396
2024-25	23	124
Total		838

 

This information was provided by THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR TEXTILES SHRI PABITRA MARGHERITA in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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MAM/SMP/NM

(Lok Sabha US Q4312)

(Release ID: 2157864)