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Program to develop pottery villages

BY IRANGIKA Range

THE Small and Rural Industries Ministry has decided to set up eleven pottery product manufacturing villages in the Kurunegala District as part of the "Guru Pahayen Ran Pahayata," national programme to develop 1000 villages in the country.

Under this project, five pottery products manufacturing villages have already been set up at Unaleeya, Singandaluwa, Ihalapankolawewa, Rukmale and Kanumale in the Kurunegala District.

The Ministry has provided Rs. 13 million for the Industrial Development Co-operatives which have been already set up in the each industrial village.

Minister K.D. Lal Kantha said that the Ministry supports directly to encourage the villagers and it has already provided equipment for 100 villagers. "'The Industrial Development Board provides the technology and consultation support," the Minister said.

The Minister said these sites are best for the pottery industry and people have been engaged in the industry from the past by supplying raw materials from their villages.

The Ministry has also conducted a seminar to train 250 selected pottery product manufacturers from each village. The seminar focussed on enhancing the accuracy, precision and efficiency of designing processes which save a considerable amount of time of industrialists.

It also helpes to educate the villagers to improve quality ,speed and flexibility to make them more competitive in the international market.

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