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Facts:
- USTTAD Scheme: The scheme was launched in 2015 by the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
- Aim: To upgrade the capacity building and traditional skills of master craftsmen and artisans.
- Objectives:
- Capacity building and upgrading of the traditional skills of master craftsmen and artisans;
- Documentation of identified traditional arts/crafts of minorities;
- Set standards of traditional skills;
- Training of minority youths in various identified traditional arts/crafts through master craftsmen;
- Develop national and international market linkages; and
- Preservation of languishing Arts/Crafts.
- Knowledge Partners: To support Ministry and the Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs) with technical inputs for capacity building of master craftsmen/artisan and upgrading their traditional skills, following knowledge partners will be involved by the Ministry:
- National Institute of Fashion Technology.
- Sectoral Export Promotion Councils.
- Other expert agencies.
- Components of the scheme: The scheme has following programmes:
- Up-gradation of Skills and Training in Traditional Arts/Crafts through Institutions.
- USTAD Apprenticeship stipend for Research and Development.
- Support to Craft museum for curating traditional arts/ crafts.
- Support to minority craftsmen/artisans through Hunar Haat and Shilp Utsav for marketing their products through exhibitions throughout the country and abroad.
- Recognition of talented Master Craftsmen & Artisans.
