Our Reporter
Dimapur, Oct. 27 (EMN): The Development Commissioner (Handlooms), Ministry of Textiles, Sanjay Rastogi, has assured to promote commercialisation of handloom products from Nagaland in a bigger way to help the people earn more.
Rastogi, who is on a visit to the state, had a consultative meeting with the state’s department of Industries and Commerce and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and welfare societies, to discuss promotion and development of handloom sector in the state, on Wednesday at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur.
After the meeting, he told journalists that he had visited several places since arriving in the state on Monday and that the state has a great potential in handloom sector.
‘We are trying to promote handloom products from Nagaland through the state directorate and we also had a meeting with state official and have discussed our ideas on how the it can be promoted,’ he shared.
He stated that there were some issues in the past “but we are helping them and not stopping the funding to the state government of Nagaland”. He asserted that the department has been given targets for exports as well.
‘We have also issued new guidelines for National Developments programme and other schemes,’ he said, adding that there is a component called ‘taking up projects’ in the guideline which gives flexibility to the NGOs and handloom organisations to draw their own programmes.
He went on to say that there are many bright natural colours in the state but nobody knows about these products.