Jodhpur - town of export excellence for handicrafts
01 Jan '07
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Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State of Commerce who was on a visit to Jodhpur said that “Jodhpur has emerged as India's second largest exporter of handicrafts”. Elaborating, he said that Jodhpur follows Moradabad and it has around 400 units employing around a lakh people and exporting close to Rs 700 crores. The exports are mainly of woodcrafts.
Shri Ramesh visited the Common Facility Centre set up by the Export Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) with assistance from the Union Ministry of Commerce in Jodhpur. He emphasized the importance of the Common Facility Centre to provide design assistance to small and medium entrepreneurs.
He promised all support to the EPCH to further develop wooden, wrought iron and sea-shell handicrafts from Jodhpur. The Minister announced that Jodhpur has been declared, along with eleven other places in the country, as a “town of export excellence” for handicrafts which entitles entrepreneurs in the city to special facilities for infrastructure and export marketing.
Other such towns include Ludhiana (woolen knitwear), Panipat (woolen blanket), Dewas (pharmaceuticals), Kollam (cashew), Alapuzzha (coir), Madurai (handlooms) and Tiruppur (hosiery).
Shri Ramesh also interacted with the guar gum manufacturing industry to identify measures to boost exports of guar gum. Shri Ramesh highlighted the fact that India accounts for over 80% of the total guar produced in the world and 70% of this is cultivated in Rajasthan alone.
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