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Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n OYAN, 7 Aug:<\/strong> Guwahati (Assam)-based National Handloom Development Corporation (NHDC) Ltd, in association with the Lisang Donyi Welfare Society (LDWS), celebrated the 8th National Handloom Day with departmental officials and rural weavers of Sille-Oyan circle in Oyan village in East Siang district on Sunday.<\/p>\n The LDWS, which has been running an ‘Eri silk and khadi cluster’ in Oyan village, is implementing schemes for the welfare of the rural weavers and craftsmen.<\/p>\n Pasighat West MLA Ninong Ering, attending the celebration, said that the government is taking initiatives to make the rural weavers and craftsmen self-dependent through income generation activities.<\/p>\n He urged the weavers to “avail the benefits of schemes under the department concerned for economic self-reliance.”<\/p>\n NHDC Commercial Officer Dhruvajyoti Sarma and NHDC Weavers’ Service Centre Assistant Director in Itanagar, Utpal Boro enumerated various schemes for the rural weavers and artisans.<\/p>\n East Siang Handloom & Handicrafts Superintendent P Bhattacharya said that “the handloom and handicrafts activities are not only alternative to agriculture livelihood but also a reliable trade to economic empowerment of rural women.”<\/p>\n Among others, Sille-Oyan CO Maloti Tamin, Oyan ZPM Bimol Lego and NGO Donyi Lisang Welfare Society’s secretary Jitendra Pait also spoke.<\/p>\n The MLA and other dignitaries later distributed identity cards, training certificates and yarn passbooks among the registered weavers of the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Correspondent OYAN, 7 Aug: Guwahati (Assam)-based National Handloom Development Corporation (NHDC) Ltd, in association with the Lisang Donyi Welfare Society (LDWS), celebrated the 8th National Handloom Day with departmental officials and rural weavers of Sille-Oyan circle in Oyan village in East Siang district on Sunday. The LDWS, which has been running an ‘Eri silk and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-197486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}