The fifth Northeast India Traditional Fashion Week is now in progress

In the presence of Ministers of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Km Pratima Bhoumik and A Narayanaswamy, Dr. Virendra Kumar, Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, e-inaugurated the fifth Northeast India Traditional Fashion Week (NEIFW) 2021.

Anjali Bhawra, the secretary of the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), was also present at the ceremony.

Dr. Kumar greeted everyone and thanked DEPwD and the National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities (NIEPVD) on this groundbreaking program for Northeast divyangjan. 

Through the divyangjan movement, he promised that this would become an annual event to promote indigenous and traditional skills across India and to conserve the history of each village in the Northeast.

He believes that numerous national mission projects are being implemented under Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji’s leadership and that the inhabitants of the country are benefiting from them.

As a result, all of DEPwD's national institutions must operate as a strong connection and extend their services to ensure that the divyangjan benefit fully from all of these national mission initiatives, such as the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, the National Bamboo Mission, and Skill Development.

He further stated that events like this will undoubtedly inspire divyangjan to pursue business chances while also providing them with job options.

During this event, all of the department's institutions, including eight national institutes, the Rehabilitation Council of India, the National Trust, the National Handicapped Finance Corporation, the Development Corporation, and the Artificial Limb Manufacturing Corporation of India, are holding various awareness programs.

This event, which takes an inclusive approach to divyangjan, aims to deepen the Make in India movement by mainstreaming divyangjan while also showcasing Northeast India's unique culture and art forms. 

Narayanaswamy went on to say that the Northeast area of India has a long history of fine craftsmen and a large-scale informal artisan enterprise in the textile, handloom, and craft industries.

Women from the North-East are recognized for their weaving, textile, and craft abilities, according to Bhoumik. She also mentioned how indigenous and traditional Northeastern talents like as silk-rearing, silk-extraction, weaving, wood-craft, bamboo-craft, organic farming, and orchids may be studied as possibilities for divyangjan skill-training and mainstreaming.

The divyangjan movement will gradually acquire pace as part of the ‘India@75 national celebration' and flagship program for Northeast India, according to Anjali, and will be a milestone for empowering the specially-abled towards an inclusive India.

NEIFW 2021 is being organised by NIEPVD, Dehradun, with the goal of catering to the divyang population and stakeholders in order to promote Northeast India's arts and craftsmen.

Its goal is to empower and uplift the divyangjan from the Northeast's different tribes and ethnic groups, while also pushing the textile and craft industries to be more inclusive.

The NEIFW emphasized skill development and entrepreneurship, as well as an artisan training workshop, a divyang artisans' exhibition, a traditional clothing display, and a traditional cultural festival.

This will not only raise awareness of divyangjan's talents and abilities, but it will also assist them to find work.

Members of the divyangjan community, their families, and representatives from other NGOs, DPOs, parent organizations, special schools, special vocational centers, and cooperatives from all eight North-Eastern States are taking part in this historic event, which will pave the way for re-engineering the concept of divyangja skilling, employment, and entrepreneurship.

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