KENDRAPADA: About 15,000 tribal households participated in craftwork are looking at a bleak future without any takers because of their beautiful dokra creations.
Already struggling with monetary losses, the company of those craftspeople had only started to pick up in January this year after Covid-19 reared its head once more, forcing the authorities to resort into lockdown along with other constraints.
Artisan Mitali Soy stated,”About 20 craftsmen of this tribal-dominated Dudhujari village at Jajpur district utilized to make their livelihood by creating Dokra items.
However, the lockdown reach whatever small sales they’d managed to attain.” Still another artisan, Mayadhar Jaraka in Kansa village at Jajpur, stated,”It has become the sole real source of our livelihood because the period of our ancestors.
We can not do anything else this for a living” Dokra is among the earliest known metal crafting methods in the united states.
“We’d been assisting those artisans, culminating in losses, promote their goods.
We’re awaiting its lockdown to be raised,” Bipin Bihari Sahoo, ” the secretary of a societal organisation named World-Act, stated.
The artisans participated in the dokra function are mostly tribals by Cuttack, Jajpur Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Angul, Mayurbhanj, Kandhamal, Rayagada, Gajapati, Kalahandi, Koraput and Sambalpur districts.
They follow the standard way of using wax to metal casting.
“Many sailors and vacationers buy dokra items straight from us.
However, the pandemic has forced them to postpone their trip to our craft booth,” Sarafat Ali, the owner of a crafts store in Jajpur, stated.
Once contacted, Nigam Charan Dash, ” the deputy chief executive officer of this government-run Odisha Rural Development and Marketing Society( ORMAS) stated,”The ban on craft melas has placed the destiny of a great number of craftspeople from the nation at stake.
They often sell their things in such fairs.
Back in 2019-20, we marketed things worth about Rs 100 crore.
But years we can sell products value just about Rs 50 crore because of Covid-19.”
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