Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah on July 24, 2020 distributed 100 electric potter wheels to 100 trained artisans under Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).
Basic Facts
Shri Amit Shah distributed the electric chaaks in village Balwa under Kalol Taluka in his parliamentary constituency of Gandhinagar via video conference from New Delhi.
More than 17,000 electric chaaks have so far been distributed across the country benefiting nearly 70,000 people of the potters’ community.
With electric chaaks, the production of clay items has increased by manifold. At present, nearly 2 crore kulhars are made every day across the country.
Potters are successfully selling these kulhars at 400 railway stations which is a perfect marketing platform for them.
Since the launch of Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana in 2018, the KVIC has trained nearly 750 potters from different villages in Gujarat.
KVIC has launched Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana under its Minieral Based Industry (MBI) scheme.
Besides training them in pottery making, KVIC has also distributed them with electric potter wheels and other equipment like blunger machines for mixing of clay. This has eliminated drudgery from the process of pottery making and also resulted in increasing the production and higher income of potters by 3-4 times.
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