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ministry of textiles
of Research & Development Scheme
including NER. Against an allocation
of Rs.8.25 crores, an amount of Rs.
2.41 crores have been sanctioned till
December, 2011 for the activities like 15
studies, 10 Seminar-cum-workshops.
Census of Handicrafts Artisans in the
whole country is under operation. It is
hoped that Census would be completed
well before conclusion of the 11 th Plan.
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Handicrafts Artisans Comprehensive
Welfare Scheme.
The scheme has been included in the
11 th Five Year Plan as one of the major
schemes with the following two main
components, aimed at Insurance Cover
and Health Care of Handicrafts Artisan
and his family:
A. Rajiv Gandhi Shilpi Swasthya Bima
Yojana.
Rajiv Gandhi Shilpi Swasthya Bima
Yojana aims at financially enabling the
artisans community to access to the best
of healthcare facilities in the country. This
scheme covers not only the artisans but
also any three members out of spouse,
dependent parents and children.
B. Bima Yojana for Handicrafts
Artisans.
C. The objective of “Bima Yojana For
Handicrafts Artisans” is to provide
life insurance protection to the
Handicrafts Artisans, whether male
or female, between the age group of
18-60 years.
During the year 2011-12 Rs. 69.00 crores
have been allocated under Plan scheme
of Handicrafts Artisans Comprehensive
Welfare Scheme including NER. Out of
69.00 crores and amount of 2.15 crores
have been incurred up to 31 st December
2011 and 393309 artisans have been
covered under Rajiv Gandhi Shilpi
Swasthya Bima Yojana and Bima Yojana
for Handicrafts Artisans.
IMPORTANT PROJECTS
1. MEGA CLUSTERS
Under Comprehensive Handicrafts
Development Scheme, in 2010-11,
for development of Moradabad Mega
Cluster two Raw Material Banks and
one Testing Centre were sanctioned
and in respect of Narasapur Mega
Cluster, 35 Community Production
Centres, one Market Development
Centre, One International Lace Trade
Centre, two Raw Material banks, one
common processing Centre, one Design
Resource Centre and One Training
Centre were sanctioned. Expenditure to
the tune of Rs. 20.53 Crores was incurred
for the development and implementation
of these activities.
Further, two Mega Clusters at Bhadohi-
Mirzapur and Srinagar were approved
in 2011-12 at a total cost of Rs.
103.09 crores and Rs. 101.78 crores
respectively for the development of
Carpet craft sector artisans. Skill
Development programmes approved
in principle for 20000 weavers for
Mirzapur and Bhadohi and for 10000
weavers for Srinagar by PAMC.
For the year 2011-12 under
comprehensive Handicrafts Cluster
Scheme, one Mega Cluster for the
Development of Wooden Craft for
Jodhpur was announced. The DPR for
the same is under preparation.
2. URBAN HAAT
During the XIth Plan seven Urban Haats
across the country have been approved
and are in progress at the following
locations :
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