Minister lays stone of Rs 1.42-cr facility centre at Boothgarh

Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, January 3

To boost wooden inlay handicraft work in the region, Industries and Commerce Minister Sunder Sham Arora on Sunday laid the foundation stone of common facility centre(CFC) at Boothgarh under the Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) an initiative by the Ministry of MSME to promote cluster development.

While laying the foundation stone in wood inlay cluster, the minister said the construction of the CFC building would be completed before March 31, where modern machines related with the mechanised work on hand made wooden articles would be installed.

He said that the project would be accomplished at a cost of nearly Rs 1.42 crore, which would be beneficial for over 200 artisans in the Hoshiarpur district. The CFC will be developed on 5,500 square feet area, said the minister adding that the project would be initiated under SFURTI.

The centre would be equipped with wood CNC, laser cutting and other machines besides having wood treatment and wood seasoning plants etc.

Any artisan from the region could take advantage from the CFC while the maintenance of this centre would be done by the Wood Handicraft Artisans Welfare Society, Boothgarh.

Once the project goes operational, the artisans of the region can easily get the machine work done on their wooden articles including wood inlay furniture, wooden boxes for ornaments, wooden trays, wooden spinning wheel and other wooden goods, he added.