Speaker inaugurates workshop-cum-exhibition on handloom

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar today inaugurated a two-day workshop-cum-exhibition on 'Handlooms and Handicrafts - Challenges Ahead', meant to provide an opportunity to MPs and others to understand the critical issues facing artisans and draftspersons and their working skills.
An official spokesperson said artists from 15 states and UTs will demonstrate their craft at the event going on in Parliament House Annexe.
Parliamentary Forum on Artisans and Craftspeople in association with Ministry of Textiles have organised the it.
Among others, silk-weavers of Banka, painters of Madhubani paintings, banana leaf weavers, craftspeople of wood-carving, terracotta, sikki grass, Manipuri handloom and textiles weavers, kani shawl and stole weavers and paper machie are showing their works.

Experts in miniature painting, kalamkari painting, hand spinning block, printing kantha embroiders, sozni embroiders are also exhibiting their skills.
Most of these artists are Padma Shri, national awardees, shilp guru, sant kabir awardees, NMC artisans and handloom weavers, he said.
The Speaker is the President of the forum whose main function is to enhance awareness and attention of parliamentarians to critical issues affecting artisans and craftspeople so as to preserve and promote traditional art and crafts through various mechanisms.