ENA Sectors 2019-03-12 06:28:05 <p><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Ganderbal, Mar 12 (KNN) </strong>Handicrafts Department of Ganderbal district of Jammu &amp; Kashmir urged the artisans to take handicrafts as their source of earning and livelihood.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Speaking at the day long artisans' awareness camp, Joint Director of Handicrafts, Kashmir, Sajid Yehaya Naqash emphasized upon the participants to take maximum benefit of welfare schemes of the department.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">He asked the concerned officers to make sure that the benefits of newly designed schemes for artisans percolate down to the target public. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Besides, he suggested conducting maximum awareness camps in the district, particularly in rural areas, with a target to motivate youth towards the handicrafts sector which has great scope of employment.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Assistant director handicraft, Ganderbal, district officer KVIB and other officers and officials of the concerned departments besides a large number of women beneficiaries were present during the event.</span></span></p> 22237 https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/sectors/handicrafts-dept-urges-artisans-to-take-handicrafts-as-their-source-of-earning-and-livelihood 2019-03-12 06:28:05 knnindia.co.in