India's CHCDS scheme for handicrafts artisans to continue till 2026

CHCDS aims to create world-class infrastructure that caters to the business needs of the local artisans and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to boost production and export.

Under CHCDS, soft interventions like baseline survey and activity mapping, skill training, improved toolkits, marketing events, seminars, publicity, design workshops and capacity building activities will be provided, according to an official release.

Hard interventions like common facility centres, emporiums, raw material banks, trade facilitation centres, common production centres, design and resource centres will also be granted.

The focus will be on integration of scattered artisans, building their grass root level enterprises and linking them to SMEs in the handicrafts sector to ensure economies of scale. The mega handicraft clusters having more than 10,000 artisans will be selected for overall development under this scheme.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)