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A delegation from PRADA, the European manner location that faced allegations of copying the plan of the Kolhapuri Chappal, visited Athani successful Belagavi territory precocious and interacted with artisans.
The squad led by Gautam Mehra, PRADA’s Indian representative, visited the houses of immoderate artisans and spoke to them. It besides visited the Kolhapuri Chappal clump successful Athani and documented the moving styles of the artisans and took pictures of their portfolio.
“They told america that they are consenting to enactment with the authorities and cooperate with the artisans. They offered to bid batches of 5 to 10 artisans successful their plan centres successful India,” Shivaraj Soudagar, clump coordinator, told The Hindu.
“We asked the officers to springiness america immoderate orders truthful that we could entree a bigger marketplace and get amended prices for our product. They agreed to see our demand,” Mr. Soudagar said.
Another circular of gathering betwixt artisans, LIDKAR officers, and PRADA designers has been scheduled successful Bengaluru this week.
ZP CEO Rahul Shinde said that the territory medication had planned a bid of actions for the Athani artisans.
“We privation to organise a bid of workshops for artisans, successful relation with agencies similar EXIM slope and National Institute of Design. They volition not lone beryllium aimed astatine grooming them successful knowing marketplace trends, but besides successful caller designs and usage of divers materials. We volition besides bid them successful utilizing e-commerce portals for boosting their sales, modular methods and processes of packing and logistics management. Another acceptable of assets persons volition supply brushed skills training, and user relations. We volition besides necktie up with ineligible experts to assistance our artisans amended recognize the implications of the Geographical Indication and different laws,” Mr Shinde said.
MP for Chikkodi Priyanka Jarkiholi said that she would impulse the State authorities and LIDKAR to enactment with PRADA and find a solution successful which the artisans get assured orders and remunerative wages. She said she would talk to LIDKAR officers and artisans successful Karnataka and Maharashtra to find a communal solution.
