Appliqué in Sonepur District - Subarnapur

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TERRACOTTA PREVELANCE IN SUBARNAPUR DISTRICT About the District: Subarnapur is situated in the confluence of river Mahanadi and Tel. The headquarters town is of the same name and was a city of fame from the time of Somavamsi rulers. The district of Subarnapur is known for its rich cultural heritage, arts and crafts. The textiles and terracotta work of Subarnapur, brass metal works and philigri crafts of Tarva and Binka, Stone carving of Ullunda and Paddy crafts of Dunguripali have earned worldwide reputation. The poet and prophet of Mahima Dharma, Santh Bhima Bhoi was a literary genius of the soil. The ideas of Santh Bhima Bhoi were appreciated by the people of different sections in spite of their different religion adherence. He was true humanistic poet of the soil. The town is known as temple town. The district spreads over an area of 2337 sq. km with two sub division namely Sonepur and Birmaharajpur and four tahasil ie Sonepur, Binka, Rampur & Birmaharajpur. Entrepreneurship Development in Terracotta craft: Entrepreneurship development in terracotta craft proved a suitable approach for economic empowerment in the district. The traditional practices of kumbhar now diversified to different product design for utility and decorative items. The rural artisans organized in a group operate business enterprise that facilitated them to access to resources and market actual ownership and active control. Terracotta which has a high degree of demand among the young customers generally produced in various shape and designs through different stages of intervention from creation to finishing. Artisans of this area have portrayed earthen to create new design terracotta items. The main potential terracotta craft pockets of the district are Kuhibahal, Silati of Binka block, Balijuri of Sonepur block, Daulpadar of Tarva block and Anilachhat of Ullunda block. Emerging terracotta craft in Sonepur Block: At the backdrop, a rural artisan from Balijuri village named Jayakrushna Rana initiated traditional practice to modern practice since 14 years back. He find hard to sustain his livelihood without any financial, marketing and training support from govt. or non-govt. agencies. Mean time he formed a group named Koral SHG but got defunct. DIC, Balangir took him as MCM and he rendered his skill in that district. The dream to develop the craft in his village came true when NRDC, a leading NGO working in art and craft in the district supported emerging rural artisan into Suresan SHG and provided all support for nurturing the group. Since 3 – 4 months the group is functioning well. Encouraged by the training support through DC, Handicraft under AHVY, NRDC implemented for a period of four months. Almost 15 artisans were trained by the MCM, Jayakrushna Rana with a smiling face. The trainees produced different utility and decorative product amounting to Rs.50000/- out of which Rs.30000/- has been marketed in the exhibition with a profit of Rs.25000/-. This demonstration made visitors from different agencies to visit the village and provided guidance for future perspective. As a result, SC rural artisans were organized in a group in same village for terracotta development. DRDA will provide support for 3 months skill PDF Creator: PDF4U Pro DEMO Version. If you want to remove this line, please purchase the full version
development training and bring them into mainstream of their income source. The MCM Jayakrushna Rana has received training from DIC, Balangir, DC, Handicraft, Kolkata and from Bhubaneswar. Marketing support through Exhibition and tie up with different showroom and agencies: DSMS, DC, Handicraft, NRDC, and NABARD. In this short period they have received order from exhibition ground about Rs,100000/- 30 nos of households can be engaged in this profession as primary livelihood and agriculture as secondary livelihood at present due to marginal or no agricultural land. The magic finger is changing their livelihood pattern. The product produced in this area are deep, god ganesha in different style, flower vessel, goddess laxmi, dinosaur, dragon, cutting tree, cow/calf, pen stand, kalasa, coin saving box, god siva linga, wall hanging and bird nest. Terracotta Craft in Ullunda block: In Anilachhat village a rural artisan named Iswar Rana is involved in terracotta craft. Since 20 years he is engaged in this work as primary source of income earning. He has 2.5 ac of agricultural land. Now the total family members of 5 are engaged in this terracotta work. He is a MCM since 15 years, trained from Regional Design & Technical Development Centre, Kolkatta. His earning source from terracotta is Rs.40,000/- and Rs.20000/- from agriculture per annum. He has educated his son and daughter to metric and +2 also. He is well versed with oriya and hindi language participating in various exhibition from DSMS and DC, Handicraft within and outside state. He is organized with an SHG named Laxmi Narayan. In that group some artisans are engaged in traditional practice but having interest to learn the modern practices of terracotta. The opportunity can be trapped and 20 HHs can be benefited, as one of the next best alternative income sources, if any skill development training programme can be supported from DRDA or any other sources. Terracotta Craft in Binka block: Silati village is one of the potential pockets of terracotta craft. In that village 6 SHGs is formed out of which 3 male SHG and 3 female SHG. In this village caste is not the barrier in this activity where not only kumbhar but also teli caste is involved in terracotta production and sale. In past teli caste families were involved in masala powder production and sale. Kusha Sahoo was the inspiration who had an outlook to learn terracotta work from Debraj Sahoo, Designer (art & craft) at Bhubaneswar for 3 years. He was educated a degree course in art college, Bhubaneswar. Now he is undergoing Diploma course in design development at CIDAC, Cottage Industry, Directorate Handicraft, Bhubaneswar. For the first time he participated in Kerela exhibition through DC, Handicraft. Confidence levels enable him to promote 10 to 12 artisan on PDF Creator: PDF4U Pro DEMO Version. If you want to remove this line, please purchase the full version
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