Odisha handicrafts division to arrange 4 facilitation centres for bamboo artisans
By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: As a part of the transfer to advertise bamboo craft and enhance abilities of conventional artisans of the State, the Handlooms, Textiles and Handicrafts division has determined to arrange 4 frequent facilitation centres (CFCs) in 4 districts.
The centres will come up at bamboo clusters in Deogarh (Bamparada), Sambalpur (Sambalpur city), Boudh (Sindurapur in Kantamal block) and Koraput (Boipariguda block). These CFCs will likely be arrange with help of Odisha Bamboo Development Mission (OBDM) beneath the Forest division.
The Handicrafts division has requested its officers within the districts to determine at the least one acre of land for the aim. The facilitation centres can have every little thing for bamboo cultivators and artisans beneath one roof together with mandatory gear for processing uncooked bamboo, technical know-how and coaching, uncooked materials and market hyperlink to promote their processed merchandise.
Sources within the OBDM mentioned bamboo in Odisha is principally labeled into two classes – industrial bamboo which is used for industrial objective or the paper mill, and industrial bamboo used primarily for family and different works in addition to by rural artisans.
The annual manufacturing potential of bamboo within the State is estimated to be round 4,00,000 MT. There are round 22,000 bamboo artisans within the State. Although bamboo craft is practised in all districts, the focus of artisans is excessive in Bargarh, Sonepur, Sundargarh, Rayagada, Mayurbhanj and Jajpur.
