NEHHDC to conduct "North East Craft Fair"

Pondicherry, July 18 (UNI) The North Eastern Handicrafts and Handloom Development Corporation (NEHHDC) will organise an exhibition "North East Craft Fair" here from tomorrow.

Pondicherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy will inagurate the fair D C Borkotoky, Deputy General Manager (Marketing) of the corporation said in a release.

He said the fair was a promotional oriented programme of the Union Government to develop handicrafts and handloom industries in the remote rural areas of the North Eastern region of the country.

Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura will be taking part in the ten day exhibition in which cane furniture, cane and bamboo basketry, cane woven items, hand printed woven textiles, among others will be exhibited, he said.

UNI PAB VR 1426