Varanasi: The Indian Management Institute (IIM) team gave its last presentation on the Varanasi District Development Plan (DDP) before the Department for Industrial and Internal Trade (DPIIT) from the Ministry of Commerce through the video-conference on Tuesday.
Leading the team, Dr.
Chandra Mohan Mishra said, “All fields where work and income can be further increased have been elaborated in the final presentation by suggesting the nature of the intervention needed in various sectors, including silk products, glass beads, tourism, agriculture and horticulture , fisheries, livestock and milk, handicrafts, wood carvings and stone repousses.
“Regarding DDP, Mishra told TII that in an effort to accelerate the district’s economic growth, the central government had initiated DDP based on pilots in Visakhapatnam, Muzaffarpur, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg , Sirnaur and Varanasi.
“IIM-Lucknow was assigned to prepare DDP which was launched as a pilot project on September 3, 2018.
The first phase report was submitted in January 2019 while in June 2020, the second phase final report was submitted.
After that, the second phase presentation about DDP was given on September 19, 2020 , “he said.
Regarding the weaving industry and silk products, the team recommends the incorporation of the handloom and handicraft departments for better coordination and supervision, replacing Chinese silk to give strength to Indian threads during weaving, intensification of silk and exploring Varansi.
It is also recommended to maintain a database of weavers and institutions on raw materials, production and export phase.
Pricing strategies, new designs with copyright to avoid product duplication, bridge the gap in pre-production and post-production skills and improvement in user experience through search engine optimization (SEO) on the online website to understand consumer demands also have recommended demands.
Regarding the tourism sector which recommends football football calculations by calculating the contribution of values ​​by classifying tourists in accordance with the duration of the stay and average expenditure per day, developing mini circuits and packaging tours by entering Ghats in Vindhyachal and Chitrakoot, Introduction to Tour Packages to improve the stay and Expenditures of tourists in the region.
Mishra said working like the development of the Rudraksh International Convention Center, Sarnath, Vindyachal and Ramnagar had been completed or ongoing.
In the agriculture sector, IIM-Lucknow highly recommend organic agricultural promotion and diversification to high-value plants, pool renewal provided, technology intervention for productivity and production.
“It also highlighted the possibility in the fisheries and milk sector by recommending steps such as the introduction of high density fish cultivation in ponds, the fish market in Chandauli to facilitate exports, deactivating the large gap between the demand and supply of milk in the Varanasi area and the surrounding area requires an increase in breeds, animal feed management and improving animal health.
poultry promotion and kambenan to be taken for additional income formation, “he added.
Mishra said all interventions must be captured quantitatively and qualitatively to monitor and track the progress of the addition of values ​​made by different sectors in the district economy.
Among other officials, Chief Development Officer Varanasi Abhishek Goyal was also present during the presentation.