Shantmanu, Development Commissioner [ Handicrafts] visited IHGF Delhi Fair Spring 2019

Greater Noida (19/02/2019) : On day two of IHGF-Delhi Fair Shri Shantmanu, Development Commissioner [ Handicrafts] visited IHGF Delhi Fair Spring 2019 and interacted with the participants and also inaugurated the thematic display of Jammu and Kashmir. J&K is famous for its scenic beauty and exclusive raw material base. The entrepreneurs and artisans from this state are displaying rug, carpets, shawls, stoles, home furnishing, woodcrafts and paper machine products.

DC [Handicrafts] was mesmerized to see wide variety of home, lifestyle, fashion, textiles and furniture products on display and said that quality of Indian handcrafted products is getting better and is at par with the products of other competitive countries as Indian products are pre-dominantly handmade and very less machines are being used.

Shri Shantmanu, DC [ Handicrafts] also launched the first handbook of Buying Agents Association during his visit to the show.

Shri Rakesh Kumar, DG – EPCH said that EPCH housed a thoughtfully spread out designers forum featuring accomplished design professionals in the home, lifestyle, fashion and textiles sector. These designers are from companies like Curo Carte Sources who are working with communities with diverse artform, company Koyakal represents the richness of tribal art forms with moto Live with Art and Live with Nature, company Anhad Craft is a story of sustainability that identifies itself with Khadi, hand spun and hand woven, company Aayom has been brought to showcase products made out of banana fibre manufactured by rural women, jail inmates and local artisans. For most of them, this is their maiden participation at the fair and they look forward to their learning, networking and market connects through this platform, said Shri Rakesh Kumar, Director General – EPCH.

Fashion show on the ramp by models wearing jewellery & accessories was one of the highlights of day two of IHGF-Delhi Fair Spring and buyers got attracted to the items of models displayed during the fashion show. The models on ramps wore the product of fashion jewellery & accessories provided by M/s Kenway Sartaj Worldwide, Moradabad, M/s S.S. Textiles, New Delhi, Risam Exports and Shri Dayal Exports, Jaipur.