Orissadiary.com, Jan 16, 2009
Sunabeda: The Gramshree Mela of Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) was inaugurated by Union rural development minister Chandrasekhar Sahu here at the NAC Ground on Wednesday.
The Mela, organized by Orupa, a non-government organization, aims at promoting rural handicraft and to strengthen the economic status of the rural artisans, Sahu said.
Besides, the amounts of money collected from the exhibition-cum-sale of the mela will distributed among the Self-Help Group members for their economic development, he added.
Speaking on the occasion, state unit convener of CAPART Vijay Kumar Ray said that a similar type of mela would be organized in Kalahandi district in the coming days.
Among others, DRDA project director Vivekananda Mohapatra was present. Representatives of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, West Bengal and Bihar participated in the mela.
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