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Growth Pole programme in Kollam from January

Staff Reporter

Study to prepare project report to begin soon

KOLLAM: Industries Minister Elamaram Karim has said the study to prepare a project report for the implementation of the cluster-based Growth Pole programme in Kollam district will begin soon.

At a press conference here on Wednesday, he said the Government planned to implement the programme for three years from January. The target groups were expected to become self-sustainable by then.

He said the project report would be prepared by the New Delhi-based Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services. The programme is for cluster-based development of the unorganised traditional sector. The problems of the sector would be taken up for examination by the National Commission for Entrepreneurship in the Unorganised Sector. Based on the project report, appropriate recommendations to improve the technical, marketing and credit facilities of the identified sectors would be made.

In the district, seven block panchayats and the Kollam City Corporation are to be covered. The block panchayats are Karunagapally, Sasthamcotta, Kottarakara, Chittumala, Chavara, Anchalumoodu and Mukathala. In Karunagapally, the programme will be implemented at Karunagapally grama panchayat; in Sasthamcotta block, Sasthamcotta and Kunnathur grama panchayats; in Kottarakara block, Kottarakara and Neduvathur grama panchayats; in Chittumala block, Perinad and Kundara grama panchayats; in Chavara block, Chavara and Thekumbhagam grama panchayats; in Anchalumoodu block, Trikadavur and Thrikaruva grama panchayats; and in Mukathala block, Mayyanad and Elamballur grama panchayats. In Kollam city, it will be implemented in the Eravipuram area.

Traditional handcrafts and food industries will be covered by the programme. These include the lace work and sea shell craft at Eravipuram, bamboo craft at Sasthamcotta and Kottarakara, straw craft work at Anchalumoodu, coir at Chittumala, fisheries at Eravipuram, Chavara and Chittumala, and dairy and cashew at Mukathala. Through the programme, assistance will be provided to lagging areas of the identified sectors for improving entrepreneurial skills and uplifting socially backward groups, especially women. The nodal agency for the implementation of the programme is the Kerala Bureau of Industrial Promotion.

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