{"id":29055,"date":"2018-10-24T16:48:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29055"},"modified":"2018-10-24T16:48:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:18:52","slug":"bengals-chau-mask-acquires-gi-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bengals-chau-mask-acquires-gi-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal\u2019s Chau mask acquires GI fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bengal\u2019s Chau mask acquires GI fame<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Geographical Indication Registry and Intellectual Property India has granted Geographical indication to five rural crafts of west Bengal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Five rural crafts are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chau mask of Purulia,<\/li>\n<li>the wooden mask of Kushmandi,<\/li>\n<li>the Patachitra,<\/li>\n<li>the Dokras of Bengal, and<\/li>\n<li>Madhurkathi (a kind of mat)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. Benefits<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>help the artisans create their own brand<\/li>\n<li>provide legal protection to artisans practising the crafts against duplication in other regions.<\/li>\n<li>Improve job opportunities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. About GI<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GI tags are given on the basis of the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999.<\/li>\n<li>GI tag secures the quality and authenticity of a the product to a particular geographical origin<\/li>\n<li>It provides legal protection from duplication<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The first product to get GI tag was Darjeeling Tea.<\/li>\n<li>In the year 2017-18,\u00a025 GI tags were awarded of which 9 were from West Bengal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengal\u2019s Chau mask acquires GI fame News: Geographical Indication Registry and Intellectual Property India has granted Geographical indication to five rural crafts of west Bengal Important Facts 2. Five rural crafts are The Chau mask of Purulia, the wooden mask of Kushmandi, the Patachitra, the Dokras of Bengal, and Madhurkathi (a kind of mat) 3.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bengals-chau-mask-acquires-gi-fame\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bengal\u2019s Chau mask acquires GI fame<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}