Teams to meet on Resham Krishi Mela

Statesman News Service

MALDA, Jan. 16: Both state and Central silk board officials will hold a meeting with the Malda district magistrate on 22 January to finalise the proposed Resham Krishi Mela in this district. The object of this silk fair is to aware sericulture farmers and related people about the new technology for silk industries. The Central silk board has taken the initiative to organise the fair here following the request of a former Malda MP Mr Dinesh Joardar, also a member of the Central silk board. The top officials of the Central silk board, the director of the state sericulture, the Malda district magistrate, the zilla parishad sabhadhipati and members of the district silk monitoring committee will meet to finalise the date and venue of the fair as also chalk out the plans for the same. The director of the state sericulture department Mr US Nandi also informed the district officials that another meeting will be held on the same day at Malda to discuss the prospect of the proposed silk park here. The officials of the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL) will be present here with the director of the state sericulture to hold another meeting with district administration and top 10 leading entrepreneurs, who are interested in setting up a silk park at Madhughat state filature, on the bank of river Bhagirathi, which is presently abandoned. The ILFSL has been assigned for the development of the proposed silk park here and it was decided that it would organise another workshop to train the selected entrepreneurs interested to join the silk park here. A total of 85 entrepreneurs from this district had shown interest in the development of the silk park and of them 40 were selected primarily. At present the department has earmarked a total of 15 acres land for the project. Earlier, owing to lack of land, it was decided that a multi-storeyed building may be used to cater to the requirements. “The officials of the ILFSL will also meet the top 10 leading entrepreneurs out of 40 selected and they will discuss the how to build a silk park here and when the plans would actually be implemented”, said Mr Bijan Mandal, the deputy director of Malda sericulture department.