Indian handicrafts: Challenges and opportunities

Abstract

The handicrafts sector in Asian nation has over the years contributed considerably to the utilisation and foreign treasury of the country. The talent is present with every state conducive through one or a lot of crafts and has created tremendous progress throughout the last decade. However, despite the massive production base, the market at international level remains unknown. The share of Asian nation within the world handicraft exports is below two. There's an imperative ought to raise the share of India's exports from regarding 2–4 WD of world exports within the returning years thereby making certain that the contribution of exports sector to the expansion of the economy is accrued within the returning years. Within the past decades, the handicraft sector moon faced the nice challenges owing to the dynamical economic structure of Asian nation and therefore the international recession. The results were seen within the last 4 years amount. However, owing to the varied policy initiatives of the govt, the last 2 years of the set-up amount have seen improvement and increasing growth rates. Most of the artisans United Nations agency had earlier left the arena, once more they're fascinated by handicraft trade. Despite the difficulties moon faced by the arena within the last set up, it's shown resilience and is growing stronger. This paper makes an attempt to gift regarding the challenges for Indian handicraft sector, the attainment level remains a drag that makes the challenges for the artisans to plug their product, lack of awareness regarding government schemes, international market and its demand; government has to develop a brief route and simple documentation for handicraft schemes.