SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said skill development in traditional arts and crafts of the State would be incentivized to keep these treasured crafts alive and create employment avenues for the local youth.
“Jammu and Kashmir has to capitalise on its competitive advantage especially in traditional arts and crafts for sustained economic growth and arming the local youth with adequate skills will be the key component of this process,” the Chief Minister said while intervening during the reply of a question on New Industrial Policy in the Legislative Council.
She said the skill enhancement in heritage arts like shawls, carpets, paper machie, wood carving, Basohli crafts and Ladakhi craftsmanship will be incentivized so that the new generation of the State’s youth is motivated to take up these high-value crafts as a means of livelihood and at the same time contribute towards J&K’s economic growth.
“We have to develop localised skill strategies so that the skills supply matches the skills demand. It is not just the supply of skills which needs to be addressed, but also the demand for skills and the utilization of skills in the local workplaces,” the Chief Minister said. (AGENCIES)
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