Development commissioner handicrafts, Union Ministry of Textiles has sanctioned HRD project to CRISP at Tigaria village near Betul district. Tigaria is small size village having population of about 1000 Tribal families.
About 40 local participants from ST category will be trained in Zari and Wood crafts under the supervision of assistant director o/o the D C (H) Nagpur. A briefing session is completed, where the trainees are given the information about the HRD scheme of the O/o the D C (H) and the future benefits of the training related to self employment for their livelihood. They are quite enthusiastic about the learning of Zari and Wood crafts.
Zari crafts will be taken care of by Julekha khan, master crafts person. she is a award winner artisan who will train the tribal ladies the zari-ari work, this will be the new art form for the tribal ladies, they have never learned before. Wood craft will be taken care of by Mrs Ramkumar ,master crafts person. Artisans will learn the products which are in demand.
Training will start soon and the market led products will be introduced after four months time. State initiated design centre at CRISP was set up by the DC (H) Government of India is also running courses for the girls and boys in fashion, garment making with CAD, interior designing with CAD facility. Recently CRISP centre has introduced the course for the ladies and girls/ boys the course called STYLING. This is a new and unique course for the crowed; the batch is full from the day-one where the students are being taught the styling for their day to day fashion.