Dimapur, June 11 (MExN): The International Border Area People’s Welfare Organization (IBAPWO), under the banner ‘IBAPWO Craft Centre’, is all set to undertake a programme on tour including a baseline survey to trace out the artisans of border area villages bordering Myanmar in all the seven blocks under Tuensang, Mon, Phek and Kiphire districts in Nagaland.
N Rhuletsu, Director for IBAPWO, has said that the team will visit all the border villages and interact with artisans who are expert and skilled in craftworks besides ventilating grievances and problems faced by them socially, economically and in every front. With the interactive meet, the team will chalk out and register the respective names of the artisans and assist them with proper guidance to boost their activities and availing them with proper marketing facilities of their homemade finished products to uplift their living standard, it was informed.
The IBAPWO will carry out the programme under the theme ‘Promotion and preservation of conventional craft works in Border areas of Nagaland’. The Organization will carry out the program to maintain the uniqueness of conventional craftworks and products of border areas and boost craft-based economy in all border villages of Nagaland.
The six member team headed by H C Matthew, the Programme Manager, will cover 139 villages under 7 Blocks – Phomching, Chen, Tobu, Noklak, Thonoknyu, Pungro and Meluri under Mon, Tuensang, Phek and Kiphire districts in Nagaland – in a phase wise manner. The 1st phase and the march-off programme will start from Kiphire on June 15, 2009, and cover Pungro block comprising 34 villages and Meluri Block covering 32 villages under Phek district and culminate on September 30, 2009, it was informed.
