BSS, Rangpur :
The eco-friendly bamboo- made handicrafts have become popular again among the common people to flourish the sector and bring fortune for hundreds of the unemployed rural people in the northern districts.
Understanding harmful impacts of using synthetic goods, common people are showing more interest in using bamboo-made handicrafts and the private sector entrepreneurs have been producing, marketing and popularising those to meet their demand.
Like many other entrepreneurs, Noman Ali, 42, has set an example in reviving the lost aristocracy of bamboo-made handicrafts through producing the next generation charming ones in village Moksudpur under Badarganj upazila of Rangpur.
Following his footsteps, many youths of the village and adjoining areas have already engaged themselves with the profession to achieve self-reliance through producing and marketing quality bamboo-made handicrafts having huge market demand.
Success of Noman Ali and his fellows have ushered in a new era in protecting, flourishing and modernising bamboo-made handicrafts and commercial farming of bamboo in the area attracting many others in the prospective venture.
Noman Ali and others are producing bamboo- made handicrafts with eye-catching looks and designs including beds, ‘khats’, doors, windows, furniture, tables, chair, fruit trays, tiles, boxes, baskets, ‘phooldani’, beauty boxes, show- cases and others goods.
After completing education, Noman Ali failed to get job when he formed ‘Chhit Laksmipur Samaj Kallyan Samity (CLSKS)’ involving local unemployed youths in 2000 in search of fortune through locally taken initiatives.
Members of the organisation first started earth-filling and road repairing works and tree plantation in public places voluntarily when local NGO ‘Come to Work’ provided them with cost-free training on income-generation activities.
In 2007, the NGO assisted 12 CLSKS members in taking part in a skill-development training course on ‘Producing Bamboo-made Handicrafts’ with the financial assistance of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute in Dhaka.
The eco-friendly bamboo- made handicrafts have become popular again among the common people to flourish the sector and bring fortune for hundreds of the unemployed rural people in the northern districts.
Understanding harmful impacts of using synthetic goods, common people are showing more interest in using bamboo-made handicrafts and the private sector entrepreneurs have been producing, marketing and popularising those to meet their demand.
Like many other entrepreneurs, Noman Ali, 42, has set an example in reviving the lost aristocracy of bamboo-made handicrafts through producing the next generation charming ones in village Moksudpur under Badarganj upazila of Rangpur.
Following his footsteps, many youths of the village and adjoining areas have already engaged themselves with the profession to achieve self-reliance through producing and marketing quality bamboo-made handicrafts having huge market demand.
Success of Noman Ali and his fellows have ushered in a new era in protecting, flourishing and modernising bamboo-made handicrafts and commercial farming of bamboo in the area attracting many others in the prospective venture.
Noman Ali and others are producing bamboo- made handicrafts with eye-catching looks and designs including beds, ‘khats’, doors, windows, furniture, tables, chair, fruit trays, tiles, boxes, baskets, ‘phooldani’, beauty boxes, show- cases and others goods.
After completing education, Noman Ali failed to get job when he formed ‘Chhit Laksmipur Samaj Kallyan Samity (CLSKS)’ involving local unemployed youths in 2000 in search of fortune through locally taken initiatives.
Members of the organisation first started earth-filling and road repairing works and tree plantation in public places voluntarily when local NGO ‘Come to Work’ provided them with cost-free training on income-generation activities.
In 2007, the NGO assisted 12 CLSKS members in taking part in a skill-development training course on ‘Producing Bamboo-made Handicrafts’ with the financial assistance of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute in Dhaka.
