A proposal to set up a Craft village at Sukhuapada and Lalitgiri has been received from Odisha State Cooperative Handicrafts Corporations Ltd. (UTAKALIKA). However, no proposal for setting up of Common Facility Centre at Lalitgiri has been received. The proposals for Craft village at Sukhuapada costing to amount Rs. 9.98 Crores and Craft village at Lalitgiri costing to amount Rs. 4.51 crores have been submitted by State Cooperative Handicrafts Corporations Ltd. (UTAKALIKA).

The proposalsare incomplete according to scheme guidelines,and therefore Odisha State Cooperative Handicrafts Corporations Ltd. (UTAKALIKA) has been requested to submit the complete proposal as per scheme guidelines.

This information was given by the Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

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