CEPC chairman takes over Bhadohi Carpet Expo Mart

Bhadohi, Feb 5 (KNN) Siddh Nath Singh, Chairman, Carpet Export Promotion Council (CEPC) has taken over the Bhadohi Carpet Expo Mart.

CEPC chairman on Monday expressed his happiness and said that the mart will give new identity and dimension to Bhadohi-Mirzapur-Varanasi carpet cluster. He also mentioned that council will start organising domestic as well as international exhibitions of carpets in the mart.

"We are planning to organise first exhibition in May, 2020 with the support of government of UP," he said.

Principal Secretary, MSME & Export Promotion, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Navneet Sehgal stated that this is the best property in Purvanchal and the state government will provide all needful support and assistance to the council in running of the expo mart.

''The UP government agreed to provide all financial assistance to the CEPC for its first exhibition in the mart and for establishing world class design studio, which will definitely give big boom to the exports from the area,'' said Sehgal.

Singh, further mentioned that council will shortly move its regional office in the mart and is planning to establish world class design studio in the mart. The world class design studio will cater the requirement of all member-exporters of the area.

Siddh Nath Singh and all members of committee of administration are hopeful that the mart will be a mile stone in the development of the Bhadohi Mirzapur-Varanasi carpet belt and the benefit will go directly to the artisans and weaker section of the society in the adjoining areas.

Apart from Navneet Sehgal, IAS, Principal Secretary, MSME & Export Promotion, Rajendra Prasad, IAS, District Magistrate, Bhadohi, Kritika Jyotisna, IAS, Chief Executive Officer, BIDA, Umesh Kumar Gupta, Abdul Rub, Onkar Nath Misra, Rajendra Prasad Mishra, Feroze Waziri, Husain Jafar Husaini, Ram Maurya, Members COA, CEPC, Omkar Nath Mishra, President, AICMA, Parveen Singh, MD, UPICO, Sanjay Kumar, Executive Director, CEPC were also present on the occasion.

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