Bhopal
On the instructions of Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav, various crafts of the state will be displayed and sold in the India International Trade Fair to be held in Kolkata in the coming month of December. An initiative has been taken to provide online sale facilities to small businessmen and craftsmen associated with cottage industries. Along with the development of its portal, the Cottage and Village Industries Department has started using other online mediums like Amazon and Flipkart. It is yielding good results.
In the last half year, sales worth Rs 11.82 crore have been made in the state by organizing fairs along with Mriganayani Emporium. Small businessmen will be provided facilities to sell such products in Madhya Pradesh as well as in the country and abroad and to export them in future. Arrangements will be developed in Bhopal Haat on the lines of Delhi Haat. Arrangements will be made for the sale of various products in the weekly Mahila Haat for women businessmen at Bhopal Haat and other places in the state.
Chief Minister Dr. Yadav, while reviewing the schemes of the Cottage and Village Industries Department recently, got information about the progress of setting up Unity Mall in Ujjain as a one stop market place for the promotion and sale of One District-One Product, GI products, handicraft products and other local products.
Revive Sagar’s incense stick industry
Chief Minister Dr. Yadav believes that the Cottage and Village Industries Department should also encourage bamboo producers and encourage cottage industries like incense stick manufacturing. Some districts of the state including Sagar have been major centers for incense stick manufacturing. Chief Minister Dr. Yadav said that the cottage industry should be revived by ensuring the availability of bamboo. In districts where bamboo production is low, instructions have been given for dense plantation of bamboo on the banks of rivers. This plantation will help in preventing water erosion. Along with this, there will be immense benefits in terms of bamboo production as well.
Chief Minister Dr. Yadav has also given instructions to make efforts for early resolution of cases at the bank level to provide maximum benefit of loan and grant schemes to small businessmen for upgrading their businesses.