Chief Minister Raghubar Das said that entrepreneurs from Jharkhand will participate in Global Fair 2018 in Dubai, where they will promote silk, lac and traditional and other handicrafts depicting cultural heritage of the State. Das, while holding a review meeting of the Small and Cottage Development Board, said on Tuesday that the effort would boost up local products in national and international markets.
The CM said that coordinators will be appointed on district, block and village level to establish connect with the Sakhi mandals and Yuva mandals and promote their products. He said that there are ample opportunities of lac and silk production in the State and the Small and Cottage Development Board has been constituted with this view. Sakhi mandals and Yuva mandals will be trained to produce things in demand with a view to benefit themselves to the maximum extent.
Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma, Development Commissioner Amit Khare, Principal Secretary to CM Sanjay Kumar, RDD Principal Secretary NN Sinha, Additional Chief Secretary, Home SKG Rahate, Secretary to CM Sunil Kumar Barnwal, Agriculture Secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni, Industry Director K Ravi Kumar and other officials were present on this occasion.