Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said that a proposal of Rs. 35,000 crore has been made for the 11th Plan for the SGSY. He asked the NIFT to provide more students for the villages and clusters to train unemployed and all the expenses on training would be borne by his Ministry.
NIFT is the first educational institution to link rural artisans to urban market through intervening in the mobilization, design and product development and market linkages. Under SGSY, NIFT has identified about 10,000 rural craftsmen working in the clusters at Dhar in Madhya Pradesh, Humpi in Karnataka, Surendra Nagar in Gujarat, Kozhikode in Kerala and Birbhum in West Bengal for up-gradation of their skills so that their products become viable commercially.
More than 900 NIFT students have visited these clusters and interacted directly with 3000 craftsmen for creating around 2500 new and innovative products. NIFT has mobilized the artisans at grass-root level and formulated 280 Self Help Groups (SHGs) under the project.
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