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Project to protect sandalwood trees

Bangalore: Project Sandalwood, a plan to safeguard the State’s most iconic tree, will be launched where saplings will be planted in protected areas and later in a few villages where the residents will take care of the trees for a price.

Announcing this at the inauguration of the Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation (KSHDC) exhibition in Jayanagar here on Wednesday, Additional Chief Secretary Neeraja Rajkumar said the plan was taking shape in view of the depleting supply of sandalwood.

The aroma of sandalwood and the dark elegance of rosewood will soon pervade Mumbai when KSHDC opens its outlet, Cauvery, in that metropolis. The corporation is looking at Pondicherry, Tirupati and Puttaparthi also to set up its Cauvery emporiums. At present, there are 12 Cauvery outlets.

The exhibition, on till January 14, is sponsored by the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Union Ministry of Textiles. It is being organised for the uplift of backward tribes under the scheme, “Kaigarika Vikasa”.

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