Looking for a new desk or dining table? Instead of visiting branded stores or making choices online, you may now consider buying furniture from West Bengal’s Forest Department, which is now going to use resources at its disposal to enhance its earnings by opening carpentry units across the State.
As of now, three new furniture workshops are coming up — in Siliguri in north Bengal, in Asansol in south Bengal, and in Rajarhat in Kolkata — of which the last is already said to have resumed operations. If the demand increases, at least three more such workshops will be opened in other parts, according to an official of the department.
The Forest Department, which has a massive stock of timber — teak, sal, mahogany, and jarul included — and which already runs a few joinery and carpentry units across West Bengal, has been supplying furniture to State Government departments, corporations, and some of the State Government institutions, but now anyone can buy from them.
