SILLE, 8 Sep: Thirty rural unemployed youths, most of them SHG members, are undergoing a 50-day skill development training on ‘Traditional Adi dress/handloom making’, which was launched here in East Siang district on Thursday by NABARD District Development Manager Nitya Mili.
The training programme is being sponsored by the NABARD’s Itanagar regional office and is being implemented by the Dite Mopang Welfare Society (DMWS).
Mili told the trainees about the need to preserve one’s culture and tradition, “as loss of culture will lead to loss of identity.”
He said that the training would provide the youths an opportunity to generate income “by way of aggregation of their product and collective mechanism.”
He further said that the NABARD would help in marketing the products made by the trainees “by way of exposure in trade fair, expo, etc.”
Sille APRB branch cashier P Bori guided the trainees regarding the documents and “other checklist” to be furnished by the SHG members while applying for bank loan.
DMWS chairman Takut Panyang also spoke.
