You can improve pottery production and skills and reduce costs through skill development and market linkages.
Objective
To enhance the production, technical knowhow of pottery artisans and to reduce
cost of production.
Key Benefits
Skill development provided for artisans of Self Help Groups, on focused products like garden pots, khullad, decorator products etc.
Assistance provided to the successful potter to set up his own unit under PMEGP scheme.
Assistance provided for developing necessary market linkages by tying up with exports and large buying houses.
Assistance provided for innovating various new products and raw materials to make international scale pottery.
Eligibility Criteria
The applicant should be an artisan between 18 years and upto 55 years of age.
Preference to be given to the people trained in the related activity, people pursuing the same activity earlier, based on their education profile and a minimum of 50% to SC/ ST/ women candidates/ BPL category.
Non-pottery artisan who is interested to start new industry can be selected for training of press pottery and jigger-jolly etc