BJP conducts meet of Weavers & Artisans Cell, Cooperative Cell

Jammu, Aug 31: BJP J&K conducted a joint meeting of Weavers & Artisans cell and Cooperative Cell at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Bhawan, Trikuta Nagar Jammu.

The meeting was chaired by BJP State General Secretary (Org.) Ashok Kaul. BJP State Incharge All Morcha Munish Sharma, State Incharge All Cells Varinderjit Singh, Pummy Singh along with all the members of weavers and Artisans cell as well as Cooperative cell, from different parts of the Jammu actively participated in the meeting. Main agenda of the meeting was to assess the progress made by these two cells in expanding their activities in this region.

Ashok Kaul, while addressing the meeting, said that the party is aware of the plight of weavers and artisans of Jammu province who have been earlier ignored on every front. He said that lot of work needs to be done for raising the stature of Artisans and Weavers at par with that of other regions. He said that the BJP will take all the essential steps in this direction. The party will firmly stand behind its commitment to improve working and living conditions of weavers and artisans, he added.

Various other speakers, in their addresses, brought to light different issues which according to them needed attention of the party. Various issues like dearth of raw material, deficiency of extension service to promote the cause of weavers and Artisans, existence of awareness of programs, of neglect of issues by the concerned agencies in the matter of selection of weavers and artisans for taking part in the different exhibition organized in state and elsewhere, absence of welfare schemes were discussed in the meeting.

The participants asserted that their units are on verge of the closer for want of support, which they do not get from the concerned departments either due to paucity of staff in their office or due to indifferent attitude of the employees of the department. The weavers and Artisans of Jammu Province are passing through difficult stage and they need attention of the authorities. The produce of weavers and Artisan are representative of way of life and culture of a place. Their produce earns foreign exchange by exporting the products to other countries. They said that the cooperative movement is supplementary to the weavers and artisans in its productive organization. May weavers and artisans have formed cooperative societies for promoting their produce. This has proved to be advantageous and beneficial to the members of this cooperative, who are generally these weavers and artisans. The cooperative movement plays an important role organizing the weavers and artisans.