EXHIBITION ‘GREEN WAVES’ AT CENTRAL
COTTAGE EMPORIUM
A unique exhibition
cum sale inspired by the color green entitled ‘The Green Waves’
was flagged off by Shri Durgesh Shanker, Managing Director, Central
Cottage Industries Corporation of India at Cottage Emporium, New
Delhi today. The exhibition curates varied products in varied
shades of the green color like pottery, hand made home décor,
hand woven linen, brassware etc. Briefing the media persons, the
Managing Director of CCICI Shri Durgesh Shanker said that the
green is the color of resurgence of life and grows within the
caring shadow of Mother Nature. He said that object of the Corporation
is not to earn profit only but to provide decent return to the
artisans and weavers. He disclosed that the target for the current
year has been fixed at 72 crore and the Cottage Emporium is hopeful
to achieve this target specially after the foreign tourists flow
to India. He admitted that the emporium suffered a loss of Rs.
4 crores. The turn over during 2001-2002 was Rs. 53.4 crore as
compared to Rs. 57.4 crore in the year 2000-2001. He said various
factors like tension on the Indo-Pak borders, attack on Parliament
House and above all attack on W.T.O. had been responsible for
this decline. With the improvement in the situation, sale of the
emporium would increase manifold, he hoped.
Shri
Durgesth Shanker urged upon the artisans to adopt new technology
but at the same time they should not loose the ethnic character
of the product.
