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By Pradeep Kumar

ITANAGAR | Feb 01 | (ANI) | Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti (GSDS) committed to offer forward and backward linkages to market traditional  dresses, handicrafts and artifacts of Arunachal Pradesh, its director Dipanker Shri Gyan announced here today.

    While interacting with youth participants during a GSDS-National Youth Project (NYP) collaborative workshop here on "attracting & retailing youth in agriculture", he said that the DSDS will procure such traditional products as samples to exhibit in its New Delhi emporium for which the samples could be mailed to his WhatSaap.

  "While payment will be with 20% profit, the up-to-date position will be informed to the makers and order placed on demands as approved by its technical committee to complete the business cycle. The local weavers, artisans and handicraft experts at GSDS expense will be invited to New Delhi to demonstrate their skill for others to learn," he said in response to a question from NYP vice president Pradeep Kumar Behera as to how GSDS could create market for local traditional entrepreneurs.

Kumar informed that few fashion designers, who are ready with their products, have conducted an exhibition and repeat the same during the two-day workshop on Gandhian philosophy for MLAs in assembly from tomorrow, first in the country by GSDS. He said that the NYP will serve as a bridge between the locals and  GSDS.

     Terming Win(Shree) Crops, an organic product, creating wonders in 42 nations by doubling any crop and tripling any pulse production, Behera disclosed that global organic scientist Dr Nilmadhab Nanda collects 97 seaweeds 25-30 km deep sea from all over the world to develop it in his London laboratory.

"I am the state representative while Biroi Tarh Nachung has been appointed as first global stockiest," he added.

Citing the success story of example Win(Shree) Crops, NYP president H P Biswas advocated its use for higher production.

"India is surviving today on Gandhian philosophy, former home minister Tanga Byaling," said in his inaugural address earlier.

  "Arunachal, still independent even after 1947, was sustaining on barter trader with neighbouring nations. Present 29 major and over 100 minor tribes who have migrated from various parts of the world live in the lap of nature in communal harmony, symbolising mini India", he said.

    Lauding the monumental works of Gandhiji and Swami Vivekananada for the humanity, he advocated the vital role of youths for the nation whose energies should be channelized in right direction, told the participants.

    Appreciating state NYP for skilling 73,833 people belonging to BPL categories and unemployed youth and 3,640 people with special abilities in eight districts, Byaling exhorted it to work more in remote areas. The state and central Govts should extend support for such constructive works, Byaling added.

     Like "powerful rivers turn beneficial once tamed",  GSDS has been endeavouring to channelize youth energy for nation building, said Shri Gyan, adding that promoting and encouraging youth of agricultural nation India would be sune pe suhaga (icing on the cake) for which DSDS would extend all support.

   NE India is known for rich traditional skills, toeing Gandhiji's philosophy, he said and added that there will be no dearth of national/international markets to benefit those involved.  He lauded state NYP for popularising large cardamom cultivation in Anjaw district that checked drug addiction and generated decent livelihood, endear to Gandhiji.

      Pointing out that Arunachal is indivisible part of India, Harijan Sevak Sangh vice president Dr Laxidas spoke in rural economy involving all family members to earn livelihood, a  Gandhian policy, to make it profitable. India's GDP will go up, if the lawmakers promote this system. The NYP activities involving the masses should be intensified for greater welfare of the society and nation, he added.

  Wardha's Seva Gram's Magan Sangrahalaya president Dr  Bibha Gupta spelt out mantras for roti, kapda aur makan, basic necessities of human beings. People living in a concrete houses get exhausted as the inbuilt iron frames always create a magnetic field weakening the living  occupants, unlike an earthen house, she said.

  India is only nation globally famous for hand-woven clothes, the best variety which helps earning and generate employment. The farmer's suicide for crops failure in India stood at 1.4 to 1.8 per on lakh population during last one decade, she advised to avoid fertilizers in cultivation.

   "I salute the Arunachalees who are mostly farmers to become true sons of India", said former GSDS adviser Basant, and appreciated the people NE for preserving their  age-old traditional knowledge and called for concerted efforts to popularise them to end the sufferings of the farmers across India by making the best use of central Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Krishi   Shiksha Yojana.

  Terming Arunachal as organic by default, Biswas cited the example of converting 22 opium farmers of Anjaw to horticulturist by cultivating large cardamom to earn Rs 1.76 crore in a year to become national model. The NYP has been continuing its endevour for various socio-economic benefits of Arunachalees, he added. (ANI)