KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday congratulated Tantuja through a tweet for being set to receive a National Award. She posted on Twitter: "Happy to share that our state apex society for handlooms, Tantuja, will be receiving the National Award for Design Development for handloom products on National Handloom Day from Govt of India, Ministry of Textiles."
Tantuja is the central marketing organization which supports primary weavers cooperative societies and handloom artisans working outside cooperatives. The CM also congratulated Biren Basak, Jyotish Debnath and seven other Bengal weavers for receiving different national awards.