Craft, handloom and handicraft
Shilp Udyam Setu
From Skill to Enterprise
Craft in India does not have a skill problem. It has an enterprise formation problem. The skill base is enormous, the craft linked categories are the thinnest and flattest in the startup ecosystem, and almost none of that skill converts into a registered, trading enterprise.
Clusters in the Meghalaya pilot
Larnai black pottery in West Jaintia Hills, GI granted 2024, and Umden eri silk and Ryndia in Ri Bhoi, GI granted 2025.
Enterprise formation
Three enterprises per cluster along the value chain, run as a twelve month instrumented pilot.
Who is engaged
Ministry of MSME participation confirmed for Meghalaya. NHDC, DC Handicrafts, PRIME Meghalaya, DPIIT and CSR partners under discussion.
Where it goes next
Adapted for Sikkim with Lepcha thara weaving at Dzongu and mask and metal craft at Gangtok, and offered to the NHDC Mizoram cluster.
Geography Meghalaya pilot clusters, with adaptations offered for Sikkim and the NHDC Mizoram cluster
Formerly the Craft Enterprise Bridge. Keep a note of the former name on the page for one year so existing references resolve.
Partners GAMSME, with SLRD as implementation partner. Formerly the Craft Enterprise Bridge
