Inaugurating the new unit of Dantewada NEXT (Dannex) in Katekalyan on Monday, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said the innovative initiative of Dantewada is slowly gaining ground and rising on popularity chart.
Visiting Dantewada, the Chief Minister obliged the women staff of the unit with autographs. He also gifted a Dannex shirt to Bastar MP Deepak Baij.
The newly-inaugurated textile unit will deploy 100 women to manufacture the garments, an official communication said.
He said that Dantewada has a huge potential to experiment with organic farming as the land is fertile and has abundance of forest resources.
He said the innovations taking place in Dantewada are compatible with the natural environment of the region, which is commendable.
In the presence of the Chief Minister, a MoU was inked between Dannex FPO and Export House Tirupur -- one of the largest wholesale units in the country -- for export of apparels made in Chhindnar, the fifth unit of Dannex.
Dannex is the homegrown clothing brand of Chhattisgarh’s tribal dominated Dantewada district. Soon it will be exported to foreign countries.
Four units of Dannex have been commissioned at Haram, Barsoor, Karli and Katekalyan. A MoU has been signed for the fifth unit at Chhindnar.
The women employees of Dannex have made a 11-km-long ‘chunari’ which will be offered by the Chief Minister to Danteshwari Mai.