Strategies for Development of Handicraft Sector (Small Industries) in India

Abstract

Handicrafts products are made by hand, often with the use of simple tools and generally artistic and traditional. It is sometimes in the current scenario called Handomen craft (women handicraft) because most of the handicraft products are related to women artisans, and women have an apex role in the handicraft products of the rich Indian cultural heritage of the country. Indian handicraft industry is a decentralised, unorganised, labour-intensive cottage industry. The sector that has a strong potential to provide massive employment to the rural sector. However, it now faces several problems, and significant competition from machine-made and electronic products, and technology and artificial intelligence, and there is an increasing state of unemployment and jobless growth. For the welfare of Artisans especially women and their social and economic justice there is requirement of strong strategies for uplifting the standards of their life. This paper would discuss and cover important strategies in Handicraft sector and better labour relation, for their development and focused on level of Strategies and sustainable development of labour relation (SDR), Not only in India but also whole of the world and labour relation in management.