‘Chambyal project’ launched to promote traditional products

Himachal Pradesh Art and Culture

An ambitious project called ‘Chambyal project’ has been launched in the Chamba district for the purpose of recognising traditional products of Chamba district at national and international levels.
Under the project, exhibition and sales centres would be opened in Rang Mahal of Chamba town and Dalhousie hill town so that traditional products could be made available to tourists at one place.
Local MLA Pawan Nayyar had recently inaugurated the first exhibition and sales centre online built under the Chambyal project at Khajjiar with an outlay of Rs 8.50 lakh. The centre would provide market to Chamba handicraft and other traditional products thereby encouraging its identify differently.
The centre would be run by the women of local panchayat and voluntary support groups so that the economy of these people could be strengthened.
A provision had been made to train people who want to volunteer in Chambyal project for traditional products and artifact under the project and they would also be provided the machinery.
Rang Mahal would also be developed as a basic training centre for traditional products.
The experts of IIT were being consulted to deal with the problem of silt in Khajjiar lake so that it could look clean and attract tourists to the spot.