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Kumhar Shashaktikaran Yojana is an initiative program under the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), which was started to empower the Potters community in the remotest locations in the country. Providing the best facilities and full training for better work outcomes. With the new technology, they could increase the output of their work and make their living standards better by selling more pottery and earning more than they used to. This opened new opportunities for the Potters to show their work with full efficiency and maintain their heritage.
Kumhar Shashaktikaran YojanaÂ
It is an initiative program of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission, like other programs to support the empowerment of underprivileged and rural sections of India. kumhar sashaktikaran yojana was launched by KVIC in 1957 by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. This was launched to preserve the heritage of India and increase employment in the country. Kumhar Shashaktikaran Yojana in 2018 by KVIC to strengthen and improve the living conditions of potter communities in rural areas by providing them with the support of new technology and training to work better efficiently.
The Use of New Technology
In India, people mostly do work with their hands only, and the use of machines is very limited, especially in rural or remote areas. The exposure to the new technologies in these areas is none. Many people do or prefer manual work instead of taking the help of machines because they find it difficult to use as they never got to learn how to make better use of technology. The government felt this need to teach the people about technology to make their work easy and efficient, so they could make themselves independent. Potters used to make the pottery with the manual wheel, which was not easy as they had to spin it by themselves again and again, and it took quite a lot of time to make the things. As a result, they could make only a few things and only sell them, which didn’t provide them with good living expenses. Still, under the Potter Empowerment scheme, the government decided to train about 200 families of the Kumhar community from nearly 20 villages of Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad, teaching them the use of electric pottery wheel and distributing it among the families to make them independent and open more opportunities of employment.
Importance
India is known for its culture and heritage, and we always try to preserve it, even in this 21st century. Pottery is an old heritage of India which has been of great importance since an early time. Therefore, it’s our responsibility to maintain this. Pottery is a great form of art necessary to be maintained and support the great potters.
The Government Help
This Potter Empowerment Scheme provides training for advanced pottery products and the use of new technology pottery equipment like the electric Chaak, which helps them complete their work in less time and enables them to make more products, which increases their income.
On July 25, 2020, the Union Home minister Amit Shah distributed 100 electric potter wheels among the trained artisans in Gujarat under the ‘Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana’.Under the Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission, this was done to empower and associate the marginalised potters’ community with India’s quest to become “Atma Nirbhar” (KVIC).
The government even provided space and arranged the need for the potters to sell their products at the railway station to have better exposure for selling their products.
It should be mentioned that traditional pottery is well-known in Gujarat, notably in Kutch and Saurashtra. The KVIC has taught around 750 potters from various villages in Gujarat since the commencement of the Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana in 2018. KVIC has provided them with electric potter wheels and other equipment, such as blunger machines for clay mixing, and teaching them in pottery manufacturing.Â
Conclusion
There are several distant regions in India where potter villages may be found. The Khadi and Village Industries Commission devised a strategy to strengthen those communities. Kumhar Shashaktikaran Yojana is the name of the scheme (KSY). It was founded in 2018 to make potters self-sufficient (ATMA NIRBHAR). Amit Shah distributed 100 electric pottery wheels through video conferencing from Delhi in 2020. It was given to Gujarat’s selected craftsmen as part of the Scheme. Furthermore, it was completed by collaborating between KSY and the Village Industries Commission.
