Despite the direct and indirect benefit of the people accrued from implementation of the Kangsabati Reservoir Project there remains a vast stretch of drought prone area where mostly the SC/ST and other backward class population live with limited means of livelihood and lack of human facilities. They are anyhow surviving with poor communication, scanty and erratic rainfall, low fertility of soil, absence of capital and entrepreneurial capacity, low technology transfer, low social and per capita income, unemployment and poverty. For this reason, one of the main problems facing the handicrafts industry is the need for research and technical development, assistance to the craftsman and manufacturers with new ideas in design to suit the taste of the modern consumer in India and abroad. The shift in demand in domestic and export markets had isolated the small trader and producer from the recruitment of these new markets. So we need financial assistance and to develop design and technical guidance to rural and scheduled tribes and backward class people to solve their poverty.
PROPOSAL AND SCHEME OUTLINE OF DESIGN AND TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME AT KHATRA (DISTRICT BANKURA)
INTRODUCTION:
Conception of Khatra:
Government of West Bengal has accepted on principle, the creation of an outlying and full fledged subdivision entitled as Khatra subdivision in the district of Bankura. A cabinet decision followed by formal notification segregating 8 PSs namely Taldangra, Simlipal, Raipur, Sarenga, Ranibandh, Khatra, Hirbandh and Indpur and 8 blocks namely Taldangra, Simlipal, Raipur-I, Raipur-II, Ranibandh, Khatra-I, Hirbandh and Indpur.
KHATRA AT A GLANCE:
1. Total Population (as per Population Census 1991) = 8,08,332.
a) Scheduled Castes =204,051 (22.24%)
b) Scheduled Tribes =1,81,245 (22.42%)
2. Geographical area =2406.90 sq.km.
3. Forest Land =464.42 sq. km.(19.30%)
4. Agricultural land =1172.05 sq.km. (48.70%)
5. Average annually =1500 mm.
6. Police Station =7.
7. Block Development and Panchayat Samiti =8.
8. Gram Panchayet =59.
9. M.P. =1 (Small Reserve for Scheduled).
10. Assembly Member =4.
a) Scheduled Tribe reservation =2
b) Scheduled Caste Reservation =1.
c) Ordinary =1.
11) Zilla Parishad Members =16.
At present, KACDC have organized the following courses. They are as follows:
1. Six Months’ Course on Training on Handloom Weaving -
Sponsored by West Bengal Women Development undertaking Government of West Bengal. 50 SC, ST, OBC and Muslim Women under this sponsored course and other 50 women also engaged in this training.
2. Training on Handicraft.
a) Training on Jute Diversification.
b) Woolen Products by Curush.
c) Date Palm Leaf products.
d) Kantha Stitch.
e) Hand Embroidery.
f) Bamboo.
g) Terracotta, etc.
3. Income generating production.
a) (Candle) Agarbati.
b) Detergent powder.
c) Mushroom.
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