Kashmiri youth to take up native art

The Jammu & Kashmir Govt plans to train unemployed youth in native arts and crafts.

The Jammu and Kashmir government is contemplating providing training to about 5000 educated youth belonging to below poverty line in rural craft across the state enabling them to start their own entrepreneurial units.

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The main objective of the proposed training is to give boost to the rural craft and motivate educated youth to set up their own units, Peerzada said declaring open a 13-day regional Saras Trade Fair 2005, first of its kind in the state.To make Jammu and Kashmir prosperous, we have to make rural people economically sound, he said

Calling for holding this type of exhibition frequently in every part of the country to provide better marketing facility to the artisans, the fair felt Mr. Peerzada would provide a golden opportunity to the rural artisans of various states of the country to exhibit their rural craftsmanship and would open new horizons of better marketing to them.

The products being exhibited in the fair include cotton fabrics from Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabadi jewellery, blue pottery, mojries of Rajsthan, Punjabi phulkari, Lucknawi zari, carpets from Muzaffarpur, Bangalore silk, beed work and sarees from Gujarat and Kashmir handicrafts.