Support for Digital Marketing
Pays West Bengal craft artisans a one-time grant to set up digital and e-commerce marketing.
An eligible artisan first needs to be listed on the state's own portal for artisans and weavers before applying locally at the BDO office in a rural area, the SDO office in a municipality, or the Municipal Corporation office in an urban area. Along with proof of that portal enrolment, cooperative societies also submit their registration certificate, and every applicant provides invoices or bills c…
This sub-scheme is for individual artisans and industrial cooperative societies of artisans in traditional West Bengal crafts and trades — blacksmithing, pottery, carpentry, basket-making and similar. Handloom and khadi weavers are covered under separate schemes and are excluded here.
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