The Kodagu district administration conducted a one-day seminar-cum-awareness camp on PM Vishwakarma programme to help artisans engaged in traditional crafts.
The Additional DC of Kodagu B.N. Veena urged the eligible persons to avail the benefits of the scheme which is being implemented by the Union government.
She said the objective of the PM Vishwakarma programme was to provide financial assistance to artisans engaged in traditional crafts including blacksmiths, goldsmiths, potters, carpenters, sculptors, etc., and whose skills are inherited and passed on to posterity from generation to generation within the family or informal groups.
