Explanation:

Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has recently commissioned a Monpa handmade paper making unit in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.

• It not only aims at reviving the art but also engaging the local youths with this art professionally and earn.

Monpa Handmade Paper

• The art of making Monpa handmade paper originated over 1000 years ago.
• The art is an integral part of local custom and culture in Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.
• The fine-textured handmade paper is also called as Mon Shugu in the local dialect.
• The paper has great historic and religious significance as it is the paper used for writing Buddhist scriptures and hymns in monasteries.
• The Monpa handmade paper, will be made from the bark of a local tree called Shugu Sheng, which has medicinal values too. Hence availability of raw material will not be a problem.

Back then, such was the scale of production that Monpas used to sell these papers to countries like Tibet, Bhutan, Thailand and Japan as no paper making industry existed in these countries at that time.

• However, the handmade paper industry gradually began declining and the indigenous handmade paper was taken over by inferior Chinese paper.
• Handmade Pottery and Handmade Furniture
• Apart from handmade paper, Tawang is known for two other local crafts – handmade pottery and handmade furniture – that are also getting extinct with passage of time.
• KVIC is also planning to revive these two local arts.

Hence all statements are correct.