Saras Aajeevika Mela offers finest handloom, handicraft products
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Team L&M
Do you love handicraft and handloom products, and are always hunting for these at one market or the other? You must then visit the SARAS Aajeevika Mela. An annual feature of the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana National Rural Livelihoods Mission [DAY-NRLM], Union Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) the fair this year focusses on the theme of ‘tradition, art, craft and culture’ and offers the best of the cultural heritage along with narrating the story of rural women donning the hat of entrepreneurship.
It is being held at Hall Number 7 (A, B & C) at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi at the ongoing 40th India International Trade Fair 2021. More than 300 craftsmen from across the country are showcasing their products that include handloom sarees, dress materials, accessories and organic handicraft products.
So you will get Bamboo art and water hyacinth products from Assam; Madhubani paintings and Sikki craft from Bihar; candles, soap, wooden name plates from Chhattisgarh; wooden toys, decorative items from Goa and Gujarat; metal art, terracotta item and artifacts from Haryana; artificial flower art from Northeast; jewellery from Karnataka; footware from Maharashtra; Sabai handicrafts, brass item, golden grass products from Odisha besides jute hand bags from West Bengal.
The handloom items include silk and cotton sarees, handloom cloth and cotton suit from Odisha, Bihar and Chhattisgarh; bedsheets from Uttar Pradesh; Kantha Stiches sarees and dress materials from West Bengal; exclusive sarees of Telangana and Kerala; woollen and pashmina shawls from Jammu & Kashmir; dress material, woolen shawls and jackets from Uttarakhand, woollen shawls from Himachal Pradesh; hand crafted jutties and mojeries, leather items of Rajasthan, leather lamp shades, painting and wood craft of Andhra Pradesh.
Also available are natural food items, gram-flour, rice, cashew nut, organic pulses from Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, spices and coffee from Kerala, tea leaves from Sikkim, organic vegetables and spices from Uttrakhand; medicinal herbs, rice and honey from Uttar Pradesh and Mahua ladoo from Chhattisgarh among others.
