Capacity Building & Awareness Creation:

In order to create awareness about GI and prepare producers to file application for registration of the product, the Textiles Committee organised more than 120 workshops/ Capacity Building Programmes during last sixteen years in collaboration with different international and national agencies like United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), various State Government, O/o. Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), GI Registry, etc. The awareness workshops act as the stepping stone to reach out to the stakeholders at their doorstep and educate them about the importance of GI.

 The deliberations in vernacular languages besides circulating booklets of GI in vernacular languages in these workshops for effectively communicating on various issues relating to GI like registration, containment of infringement, brand promotion, market linkage, etc. and helped the stakeholders to understand this IPR