Government focuses Craftsmen
Union Minority Affairs Minister Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said in a statement in New Delhi that the Government will provide employment and employment opportunities to lakhs of artisans, craftsmen and traditional art experts through Hunar Haat in the next 5 years.
The next Hunar Haat will be organised at North Central Zone Cultural Centre in Prayagraj (UP) from 01st to 10th November, 2019 where more than 300 master artisans and culinary experts including a large number of women artisans from every corner of the country will participate. All the Hunar Haat, to be organised in 2019 and 2020 will be based on the theme of Ek Bharat Shresth Bharat.
Hunar Haat has proved to be an effective programme to provide employment and employment opportunities to master artisans. More than 2 lakh 50 thousand master artisans, craftsmen and culinary experts have been provided employment and employment opportunities in the last 3 years. These include a large number of women.
It has decided to organise about 100 Hunar Haat in the next five years across the country to provide market and employment and employment opportunities to master artisans and culinary experts. In the coming days, Hunar Haat will be organized in Delhi, Gurugram, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Dehradun, Patna, Indore, Bhopal, Nagpur, Raipur, Hyderabad, Puducherry, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Jammu, Shimla, Goa, Kochi, Guwahati, Ranchi, Bhubneshwar, Ajmer and other places.
