1,565 Indian craftsmen benefit from 63 Samarth Training Centers

26th August 2021, Mumbai:

Traditional Hand Embroidery craft training programmes in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh and Khaperkheda, Maharashtra; cane and bamboo crafts training programmes in Betul, Madhya Pradesh and DakshinDinajpur, West Bengal are some of the good instances of how the industry's talent gap is being closed.

In this context, the Ministry of Textiles' Samarth Scheme for Capacity Building in the Textile Sector has played a key role in closing the skill gap.

Each of the 63 training centres has finished the first batch of the training programme, which has benefited 1,565 craftsmen. The second group of trainees will complete their course in August 2021, benefiting a total of 1,421 people. In addition, 65 additional handicrafts training centres are being built to expand the training programme and reach the largest number of craftsmen possible. The Ministry of Transportation said in a statement that it has adopted 65 clusters for the overall development of craftsmen in a time-bound way while assuring the self-sustainability of the artisans in these clusters. The craftsmen in these chosen clusters will benefit from the need-based interventions that are being implemented. 

The upskilling of handcraft craftsmen in these adopted clusters is being done through the SAMARTH initiative, which provides technical and soft skill training in order to allow sustainable livelihoods through wage or self-employment. The scheme's goal is to provide demand-driven, placement-oriented skilling programmes to support the industry's efforts to create jobs in the textile and allied industries, which span the full value chain of textiles (except spinning and weaving in the organised sector). It's worth noting that applications for training programmes under the Samarth plan were solicited from state government agencies, business, and industry groups.

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