| NAME OF THE CLUSTER: VARANASI |
| IMPLEMENTING AGENCY: EDI,AHMEDABAD |
| PROGRESS REPORT [2007-08] & [2008-09] [UPTO May,2009] |
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2007-08 |
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2008-09 |
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Amount sanctioned:Rs 69.10 Lakhs |
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Amount Sanctioned: Rs 34.10 Lakhs |
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Amount Utilized: Rs. 66.09 |
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Amount Utilized: Rs 26.16 lakhs |
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Percentage Utilized: 95.64 % |
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% Utilisation 76.72% |
| 2007-08 - Updated till May 2009 |
2008-09 |
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Physical Activity [NOTE: The Activities mentioned in Bold below are also the activities sanctioned for 2008-09] |
Phy.
Target [Freq/ No] |
Phy
Ach.
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Fin. Target
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Fin. Ach. [Rs in lakhs] |
Remarks |
Physical Target [Freq/No.] |
Phy.Achievement [Apr.08-May 09] |
Fin. Target [In Rs Lakhs] |
Fin. Achievement [Apr.08 to May 09] |
Remarks |
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| A |
Market Linkages |
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| 1 |
Business meet with national buyers for 2-3 days at Varanasi |
2 |
2 |
2.00 |
2.00 |
Organised at Varanasi & Delhi with Kotex, Fab India and Pantaloon, ITPO exhibition. Total sales - Rs 42.00 Lakhs |
5 |
6 |
5.00 |
4.20 |
1.Organised at varanasi cluster area with CCIC,HHEC, Shahi export,Radiant Exports, Hara Design, Lifestyle and Hanun Creation. Worth Rs. 1.5 lakh to Hanun Creation, Rs1.98 Lakhs to Lifestyle, Rs 4.02 Lakhs to Hara Design chandigarh, Rs 5.15 Lakhs to Sri Design Studio, Hyderabad supplied respectively.
2. BSM organised by NRA at Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Mumbai.
3. Mr. A.N.Banerjee from Balaji Emporium interectd with the weavers cluster area, saw their products and gave the order worth Rs 0.46 Lakhs for sample development. Orders executed.
4. On March 19, 2009 buyer seller meet organised with Fab-India and Good Earth. April 09: Organised a meet with local Buyer from NDJD-Varanasi with producers company. |
| 2 |
Organizing Exhibitions |
3 |
4 |
6.00 |
6.00 |
Organized at Jaipur, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Jammu, Jodhpur, Mumbai |
5 |
3 |
8.00 |
7.45 |
NRA organised an exhibition at Ahmedabad, Bangolore, Delhi & Mumbai and Porducer Co participated in ten exhibitions organised by NHDC, four by ACASH and two by NABARD and one Yaahi. Total sales of all the exhibitions was Rs. 30.61 lakh. |
| 3 |
Product Catalouge - Publicity Material |
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1 |
2.00 |
2.00 |
1.Upgradation of IInd volume of Cataloge completed completed. 2. Publicity Agency SILP,Noida, Delhi preparing soft catalogue of Varanasi products & documentary film on cluster. |
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3 |
1.20 |
1.20 |
1.First & Second Valume of Fabric catalogue is ready
2.one product catalogue is ready.
3. one e-catalogue and Tag is developed |
| 4 |
Market Study |
1 |
1 |
1.00 |
0.90 |
Market study awarded to Fourth Vision, Ahmedabad and report completed. |
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Final report is received and submitted to O/o.DC[HL] with the comments on recommendations. |
| B |
Design and Product Development |
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| 5 |
Engagement of Designer |
1 |
1 |
5.00 |
5.00 |
NID Designer -Samira Awasthi engaged as designer and made 25 days of field visit at the cluster in the year 2007-08. |
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1 |
3.60 |
3.00 |
Mr. Ashish Kumar, designer for the cluster has developed 32 new designs and Rs.7.35 Lkahs sales generated & orders worth Rs. 11.90 during the year. 10 buyers tied up till date. Total 86 days visited to the cluster. |
| 6 |
Development of new and diversified products appropriate for the national and international markets |
45 |
25 |
8.00 |
8.00 |
About 45 designs have been developed by the designer and 30 new design developed in association withW.S.C.Varanasi. Revolving fund been used for product develoment. |
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27 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
24+3 designs have been given to Bunkar Self Help Group through B.H.V.S.P.Co.Ltd.for development. seven designs fabric is ready and remaining are under process.
2.In month of February 09 designer has provided three designs for development to weavers. its submitted to designer for further big order.
3. Mr. Manish has provided two stole sample and three fabrics, both has been developed by the weavers and submitted to him for big order. |
| C |
TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS |
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| 7 |
Dyeing workshop in the cluster |
2 |
2 |
3.00 |
3.00 |
Two Five days orientation programme organised in association with Digitex ColourMatch, Salem. |
8 |
8 |
0.40 |
0.88 |
Eight workshop organised at cluster area. |
| 8 |
Training of dyers at WSC or with dyeing companies/ outside the cluster for a week |
4 |
4 |
0.60 |
0.60 |
Conducted 2 to 3 Dyers workshop with 10 Dyers each with the help of WSC. |
5 |
5 |
2.00 |
2.00 |
Five training programme organised at Cluster area for 85 participants. |
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CFC & Dye House at Kotwa & Ramnagar |
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Construction/renting/leasing of a building of 3,000 sq ft in Kotwa and Ramnagar - CFC |
1 |
1 |
19.00 |
15.96 |
1.Bricks work completed at roof level as well as inside and out side plaster work is also completed. Windows and doors are fitted. 2. Construction of RCC roof has been started.
3. For machines and equipments purchase order has been placed to the concerned agency. |
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Common dyeing house with 5 kg yarn per lot capacity at Ramnagar & Lohata |
2 |
2 |
10.80 |
10.80 |
Two Dye Houses upgraded at Ramnagar & Lohta and commercial function started. |
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| 11 |
Engagement of a professional for managing the centre – Technical Resource person |
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1 |
1.20 |
1.38 |
One professional hired as Technical Resource Person. |
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| E |
Institutional Development/ Strengthening |
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Formation of weaver groups in Kotwa, Lohta and Ramnagar |
50 |
53 |
1.50 |
1.50 |
Total 53 SHG has been formed and linked with banks and covered 620 weavers in SHG fold |
50 |
40 |
1.50 |
1.50 |
50 SHGs formed & 40 open their account with bank which has 488 members. Total of 92 SHGs formed. |
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Formation of Marketing Platform /producer company for Kotwa, Lohta and Ramnagar |
1 |
1 |
1.50 |
1.50 |
Registration of Producers' Company in the name of Banaras Hathkargha Vikas Samiti Producers Company Ltd. Completed. Producers company applied for handloom & silk mark. As soon as it gets the PAN card the company would apply for sales tax. |
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| 14 |
Capacity building of office bearers and members of the groups on costing, management and quality control |
4 |
4 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
Four managerial training programme for the Cooperatives members/SHG member/Master weavers completed. 2. one vision building workshop for board of directors of prod. Co. completed. |
6 |
6 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
Organised Six managerial programme of SHG key person in cluster area for 120 members. |
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Financial Linkages |
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| 15 |
Organizing banker's meet |
4 |
4 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
Bankers meet at WSC & District Collectorate held on 18th July & 24th Sept 07, regional level meeting between NABARD officials & borad members of BHVS Producers Company. Meeting with SIDBI Official at vararansi. |
4 |
3 |
1.00 |
0.80 |
Three bankers (SIDBI ,PNB& NABARD) meet were organised with producer co. to provide financial support to weavers, master weaver and SHG. 2. Our team also participated in DLBC &BLBC. During the month Took the PNB, Parav branch- Branch Manager to Ramnagar, Who visited to ten weavers to provide the financial support. |
| 16 |
Facilitation of credit linkages with financial institutions |
5 |
10 |
0.25 |
0.25 |
SHG Credit facilitation in tune of Rs. 14 lakh achieved |
10 |
3 SHGs & 27 individuals |
0.50 |
0.50 |
1.Three SHGs got term loan of Rs 7.5 lakh(Rs. 2.5 lakh each).
2. Twenty Seven individual weavers got loan of Rs.9.80 lakhs. |
| 17 |
Corpus for Yarn |
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1 |
5.00 |
5.00 |
About 15 lakhs of yarn has been disperced thru' NHDC/yarn corpus |
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5.00 |
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In the financial year 08 -09 - Rs. 47.79 lakh worth Supplied through NHDC and 600 weavers benefited. In April and May 09, worth Rs 11.87 Lakhs yarn suppled through NHDC Ltd. |
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Monitoring/Documentation |
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CDCC Meeting |
5 |
2 |
0.25 |
0.20 |
Two CDCC meeting conducted besides that several time CDCC members had informal meeting to solve the cluster related issues. |
4 |
2 |
0.40 |
0.20 |
Two CDCG meeting under the chairmanship of DM Varanasi. |
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GRAND TOTAL |
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69.10 |
66.09 |
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Activities 2008-09 |
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| 19 |
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Business Development Service Providers Interface at Varanasi |
2 |
2 |
1.50 |
0.66 |
Two progrmmes on costing and pricing of products for the Producers' company was organized. This helped to enrich the skills of the Producers' Company members. |
| 20 |
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Managerial training to the associations members |
2 |
3 |
1.00 |
0.77 |
Two programme for 40 members organised on quality standarisation & costing for the member of association and one programme on financial Discipline in which 20 selected members participated. |
| 21 |
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Handloom Mark/Silk Mark |
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6 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
Two Silk mark awarenesss and four handloom mark programme organised in cluster area in which 180 weavers attended. |
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34.10 |
26.16 |
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