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Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI)

OBJECTIVE OF THE SCHEME

    ● To organize the traditional industries and artisans into clusters to make them competitive and provide support for their long-term    sustainability.

    ● To provide sustained employment for traditional Industry artisans and rural entrepreneurs.

    ● To enhance marketability of products of clusters by providing support for new products, design intervention and improved    packaging, and also the improvement of marketing Infrastructure.

    ● To equip traditional artisans of the associated clusters with improved skills and capabilities through training and exposure visits.

    ● To make provision for common facilities and improved tools and equipment for artisans

    ● To strengthen the cluster governance systems with the active participation of the stakeholders, so that they are able to gauge the    emerging challenges and opportunities and respond to them in a coherent manner.

    ● To build innovative and traditional skills, improved technologies, advanced processes, market intelligence and new models of    public-private partnerships, so as to gradually replicate similar models of cluster- based regenerated traditional Industries

INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

    ● Scheme Steering Committee (SSC)

    ● Nodal Agencies (NA)

   PPDC- Process and Product Development Centre, Agra (UP).

    ● Technical Agency (TA)

    ● Nisarg Agripreneurship Foundation

    ● Implementing Agency (IA)

   Gramin Mahila Vikas Sansthan

    ● Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)

   Guargum and Isabgol Processing Cluster

    ● Farmer Producer Organizer (FPO)

   Nirantar Agro Farmer Producers Company Limited.

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