Lucknow . Just before Deepawali, there will be a gathering of artists who have revived their skills in the city of Lucknow. The fair will be organized by the Uttar Pradesh Mati Arts Board in the premises of Khadi Bhawan at Dolibagh here from November 4 to 13. In this, Mati artists from 15 districts will come with their entire range of products. Two stalls will be made available for display of products from each district. There will be no charge for these stalls. Not only this, the Mati Arts Board will also bear the expenses of staying for 10 days. At the Mati Kala Mela with Terokota of Gorakhpur, Black Pottery of Azamgarh and Khurja with clay cooker and wok and Agra, Lucknow, Kushinagar, Mirzapur, Azamgarh, Chandauli, Unnao, Ballia, Kanpur, Pilibhit, Allahabad, Varanasi, Badan and Ayodhya Special products made of clay will be available in their entire range. It is natural that Lakshmi, Ganesh idols and designer diy will be special attraction in this fair before Diwali. He also became according to his soil and his tradition. The fair will not only have a full range of products from the concerned district, but will also be a live demonstration of how they are made. Artists from different districts will be given the opportunity to do so on modern chalk.
In the changed global scenario, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been intending that this Diwali be done so that instead of Lakshmi, Ganesh idols imported from China and designer diyas, these products made by him should be sold more and more. The biggest challenge was the finishing and price of the products. For this, the board organized training programs for those who made them. According to their demand, models of different sizes of Lakshmi-Ganesh idols were prepared. In order to mold these models, the best kind of paste from Paris of Paris was provided with dye, spray painting machine for dyeing and diya making machine. The Mati Kala Mela will be a proof of what the people associated with this profession benefited from them.
Additional Chief Secretary UP Khadi and Village Industries Board Navneet Sehgal said that the life of the traditional people associated with this profession, who prepares the soil products, should be better, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s intention is. In order to their guidance and guidance, the Mati Kala Board is constantly trying to increase their production capacity, improve them in quality and make them competitive in the market. In this sequence, modern furnaces were also made available by connecting them with professional people and institutions like NIFD for training, advanced type of tool kit after training, electric chalk, pug mill and finished goods ready to cook equally fast.
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