1

Capacity Building

Training Programmes on employment enhancing vocational skills like water hyacinth craft, Designer Candle craft, Natural Dye, Scrap Fabric, Doll making, MAP, etc. along with other training programmes covering trade like welding, electrical work, motor driving, steel fabrication beautician, homemade chocolate etc

1,365

2

Infrastructure Support

• Annual maintenance charge of India Exposition Mart Limited, Greater Noida
• Expenditure related to manning of the showroom at Rehabari, Guwahati, Aizawl, Towang and Namchi
• Expenditure towards manning R&D Centre at Khetri and Nagicerra, Tripura. Experts from Thailand conducted training programme coconut shell craft at R&D Centre Khetri
• Additional water hyacinth craft CFC was setup at Dhubri. Also two designer candle craft CFCs were setup at Maniram and Samaseybong of Sikkim
• Setting up a CFC for weaving project at Chatra Village of Nalbari, Assam in association with IDBI Bank.

1,810

3

Marketing Assistance

• Facilitate participation in various local, national and international exhibitions like IHGF spring & autumn 2015 held at Greater Noida, IITF 2015 held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, Thematic Bhutan Fair 2015, Vibrant India at New Delhi etc.
• Organized North East Craft Carnival 2015 at NEDFi House, Guwahati

326

4

Other Developmental Initiatives

• Facilitate mentoring service for development of micro enterprise through professionals associated with banking industry.
• Organized awareness camp on Govt. Schemes and policies, Banking Credit schemes in NER states.
• Engaged mentor for handholding support and guidance to the village artisans on different category of crafts
• Pilot project on piggery for livelihood enhancement in Nagaland
• Organized Product development workshop on Coconut Shell Craft on March 2016 with experts from Thailand.
• Distribution of Solar Lamps to the Poor Girl Child of interior areas of Manipur.

1,560

Total

5,061