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National Bamboo Mission (NBM) has launched an MIS module for strengthening the domestic Agarbatti industry.
About
- An MIS (Management Information Systems) based reporting platform for agarbatti stick production has been launched. This platform will help-
- to collate the locations of stick making units,
- for the availability of raw material,
- for the functioning of the units, production capacity, marketing, etc.
- in better synergising the linkages with the industry to enable seamless procurement from production units,
- in plugging the information gaps.
- National Bamboo Mission (NBM), Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) schemes as well as States, together with industry partners have stepped up to support this platform.
Benefits of Initiative
- It will enhance the support for ‘Vocal for Local’ and ‘Make for the World’ since Indian agarbatti is much sought after in global markets.
- It will help to bring back livelihoods for the local communities.
- It will give a boost to efforts for modernising the agarbatti sector.
- It will provide focused support to enable India to become Atma Nirbhar in the agarbatti sector.
Khadi Agarbatti Atma Nirbhar Mission
- The Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) has approved a unique employment generation program proposed by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) to make India Atma Nirbhar in Agarbatti production.
- It aims at creating employment for unemployed and migrant workers in different parts of the country while increasing domestic Agarbatti production substantially.
- The KVIC is implementing the program and is hand holding the artisans and SHGs with proper backward & forward linkages and needful support.
Conclusion
- The agarbatti sector traditionally provided large scale employment to the local workforce, which however dwindled due to various factors including the ingress of cheap imports of round sticks and raw batti.
- The policy measures are taken by the Government of moving raw batti imports from free to the restricted category in August 2019 and increasing import duty on round stick uniformly to 25% in June 2020 came as a boost to the domestic units.
- The decision was taken to offset the “huge employment loss” in the sector due to the “heavy import of bamboo sticks from China and Vietnam.
- The import duty hike is helping in setting up new agarbatti stick manufacturing units to meet the ever-growing demand for agarbatti in India.
- Further, an MIS module will strengthen the domestic Agarbatti industry.
National Bamboo Mission (NBM)
Objectives of NBM
Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC)
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Source: PIB
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