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The National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum (NHHM) commonly known as National Crafts Museum in New Delhi is one of the largest crafts museums in India. It is run by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. The museum is situated on the corner of the Pragati Maidan, facing the Purana Quila complex. [1]
National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi [4] was set up at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi under the administrative control of the Ministry of Textiles. [5] The Museum is a structured village complex consisting of 15 structures representing village dwellings, courtyards and shrines from different states spread over an area of 5 hectares.
Indian Institutes of Handloom Technology (IIHTs) are government run public institutes of higher education in the handloom sector.
handicrafts.nic.in The office of Development Commissioner for Handicrafts is the national agency which works for the development , promotion and export of Indian handicrafts . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The agency comes under the administrative control of Ministry of Textiles , Government of India .
The Delhi University (DU, ISO: Dillī Viśvavidyālaya), also and officially known as the University of Delhi, is a collegiate research central university located in Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly. The Vice President of India serves as the university chancellor.
The state has the third highest number of handlooms and the highest number of handloom weavers in co-operative units. The department of handlooms is responsible for ensuring the sustainability of the weavers by facilitating raw materials for production, infrastructure support, marketing and sales of finished goods through Co-optex. [13] Powerloom
The university currently consists of 16 faculties and 86 departments distributed across its North and South campuses and an enrollment of over 162,000 regular students and 261,000 non-formal students. The Vice-President of India serves as the university's chancellor. The University of Delhi is composed of 77 affiliated colleges and 5 other ...
In 1950 Pupul Jayakar was invited by Jawaharlal Nehru to study the handloom sector of the economy. [1] The AIHB was established in 1952. [2] [3] [4] Its first chair was Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay. [5] Other early key figures included Lakshmi Chand Jain, Kitty Shiva Rao and Fori Nehru. [2] [6]