The Hindu Business Line : Canara Bank plans to market products of rural artisans

Boosting handicrafts: Mr M.B.N. Rao, Chairman and Managing Director, Canara Bank, looking at the sculptures made by the students of C.E. Kamath Institute for Artisans, which is sponsored by Canara Bank, at Miyyar in Karkala of Udupi district.

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Miyyar (Karnataka), Aug. 19 Canara Bank will look into the possibility of having tie-ups with renowned institutes for marketing the products created by rural artisans at the artisan training institutes run by the bank, according to Mr M.B.N. Rao, Chairman and Managing Director of the bank.

He was replying to a suggestion made by Mr M. Veerapa Moily, Chairman of the Central Administrative Reforms Commission, in this regard at the inauguration of the new campus of the Canara Bank-sponsored C.E. Kamath Institute for Artisans at Miyyar in Karkala taluk of Udupi district on Saturday.

Mr Moily had said that the bank should work in partnership with other institutions to market the products created by the rural artisans.

‘Recognise artisans’

“We will ensure tie-ups so that the works of artisans are carried to all centres of the country and the world,” he said. Unlike computer programmers, artisans don’t get any recognition. Mr Rao said the institutes like the one at Miyyar play an important role in maintaining the culture of the country.

Artisans trained at the institute have received national and international recognition. This has enabled the growth of heritage in the region.

The bank understood how unemployment was the greatest problem for social and economic development of the country, and in the 1980s, took the initiative to train unemployed rural youth in methods of self-employment.

Institute works

Mr Rao said the Canara Bank Centenary Rural Development Trust has through its 14 institutes in the country trained more than 50,000 people in traditional arts, rural development activities, and information technology.

Of the 14 institutes, training in traditional arts is given at Jogaradoddi and Miyyar in Karnataka and Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu, he said.

Mr Moily handed over the artisan credit cards to five former students of the institutes on the occasion while Dr V.S. Acharya, Karnataka Minister for Medical Education, released the souvenir titled ‘Carving Lines’.

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