Handloom clothes and handicrafts by the craftsmen of Madhya Pradesh worth about Rs 24 crore have been sold through Madhya Pradesh’s Mrignayani Emporiums and exhibitions in year 2012-13 which is Rs 5 crore more than year 2011-12.
A number of efforts are being made to provide market to products manufactured by Madhya Pradesh’s craftsmen and weavers. There are total 22 emporiums in the country including 10 outside the State in Calicut, Bengaluru, Chennai, Goa, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmadabad, Jaipur, Noida and Kolkata. There are some major cities in the country where there is no Mrignayani Emporium, but demand for Madhya Pradesh’s handicrafts is high over there. Sales are held in these cities to meet this demand.
These cities are Delhi, lucknow, Nagpur, Kanpur, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram and Bhubaneswar. Arrangement of permanent haat has been made at Bhopal and Gwalior. Construction of urban haat is underway at Indore. last year, Mrignayani Emporiums at Bhopal’s GTB Complex, Bittan Market and Gauhar Mahal, Gwalior Jaipur, Indore, Noida and Dodi were renovated. Besides, a new emporium has been opened at Ahmadabad.
Madhya Pradesh Handicraft and Handloom Development Corporation provides free space at its grand events to craftspersons to sell their products. Craftspersons sold products worth Rs 1.60 crore at these events in year 2012-13. Craftspersons from all over the country did business worth Rs 7.81 crore at National Handloom Expo.
Apart from this, Handicraft and Handloom Development Corporation supplied cloth worth about Rs 3 crore to various State Government departments last year under Government Cloth Supply Scheme.
With a view to providing employment at village level, large-scale employment opportunities have been provided to various clusters of craftspersons and weavers. last year, direct or indirect employment opportunities were provided to about 24 thousand craftspersons in marketing sector.