With an view to exhibiting decorative items made of bamboo, the Chhattisgarh Handicrafts Development Board (CGHDB) is organizing an exhibition-cum-training session during ‘Rajyotsav-2014’ here.
The Board has also made arrangements to teach the interested people the art of making decorative and the items of daily use from bamboo. The visitors are admiring items made of bamboo like paper stand, pen stand, table, chair and sofa set from CGHDB’s stall.
The District In-charge of the Board, HB Ansari informed that there are unlimited possibilities in the field of making decorative and the items of daily use from bamboo in the district. He said that the people belonging to Kamar caste had been working in this field. The Board is providing them training to make this work as their profession.
He added that a batch of 40 interested people are being provided three months preliminary training and Rs 1500/month as scholarship.
later, the training session will be extended for another three months of time and the scholarship amount will be raised to Rs 3200 per month.
To this, the trainees, Panchram Kumar, Nandlal, Choturam, Prabhuram and Prakash Kumar said that after completing the training, they will be able to earn their livelihood through permanent employment of making items of bamboo. They are now able to understand the market’s demands of bamboo made items.