Geographical Indication

GI of Banaras Brocades & Sarees; Handmade Carpet of  Bhadohi and Handicraft Products of Eastern U.P.

HWA is a registered proprietor of GI registration of Banaras Brocades and Sarees, Handmade Carpet of Bhadohi, Champa Silk Saree and Fabric, Livelihood promotion of Handloom, Handloom mark , and Now an applicant of the 5 Handicraft products for the eastern Uttar Pradesh


Save Handicraft – Preserve Tradition

Background:
The Indian handicraft and culture is as old as the inception of Indian civilization (even the famous archaeologist Rakhal Das Banerjee) had found so many evidence of handicraft products like Dancing statue of Nataraj, Big granaries etc in Harappan and Mohenjadaro in civilization. After the upcoming of Aryans the handicraft culture flourished in new horizons, such as use of iron in metal products.
Vedic era starts around 1300 B.C. when Aryans were fully settled around the North India and the handicraft products creat apex and the producers of there products got great respect i.e. Kumahar, Weaver and Artisans. The greatest evidences of the existence of handicraft product were the Ramayana and Mahabharta. We see various types of weapons, Chariot – wheels, ornaments, Utensils potteries, Furnitures, Design of Palaces, Temples, Statue of God & Goddess, Carpet clothes were made by Artisans during the period. During Maurya and Gupta period which was also resembles as indamines Golden period the Artisans got highest respect because they had shown remarkable work by exploring art and culture all over the India. We can see the temples of north and south, Stupa of Sanchi including the beauty of palaces.
During medieval period India was suffered with so many attacks from outsiders like Mongals, Hun’s etc and the handicraft culture was not explored fully. The Mughal period played a great intervention for revival of the handicraft industry. The awards and prizes were given to Artisans during Mughal period for exceptional works.
The upcoming of Britishers has affected the Indian handicraft industry in both ways positively and negatively. They were allured with traditional handicraft industry of India and sweep away all important antiques to their country like ‘Sword of Tipu Sultan’ ‘Kohinoor Diamond’ etc.
At last we can say that all the dynasties had played important role in revival/devastation of traditional handicraft industry of India. Now a days millions of people of our country are depend on this vocation. So we have to make a good platform for our artisans to project them at global scenario.

Threat after WTO implementation on the Handicraft Products:
The World Trade Organization is the institutional framework of multilateral tradition and is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). As its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of worlds tradition nations. These agreements provide the legal ground rules for international trade. After WTO the global market was open and it was easy to trade with different nations.
The countries like China has started to avail this opportunity in negative terms. They started production of goods by making like silk products, toys industries, embroidery machines and metal products of different countries China produced goods in very less price due to less labor cost, no interest by banks within 5 years and communist government and started exporting., these inferior goods of low quality started devastating the handloom and handicraft culture of our country. Due to the effect of the China product at least 3.5 million people who are engage in the handicraft work are facing livelihood crisis and sweating their traditional jobs. Due to this effect a number of traditional handicraft product are coming in the languishing craft class and after few year this will be only available in the musicians. India was a land of “Golden Bird” only due to their prestigious handicrafts, but now where we are losing our intellectual properties, our tradition, culture and most important our artisans. Our country can competent the word by the intellectual properties which is pressured here since thousand and thousand years.
Types of IPR (Intellectual Property Right):

  • Trademarks and Service Mark.
  • Industrial Design Registration.
  • Copy Right.
  • Geographical Indication.

Why GI:
G.I. is necessary not only to save the particular product but the millions of people who are engaged in particular sector is benefited by the GI in different ways.

  • Saving Traditional Craft: GI helps in saving the traditional craft of a country. It projects the particular products globally in terms of quality and authenticity.
  • Providing livelihood opportunities: GI of a product promotes livelihood opportunities to peoples which help in stopping migration and getting good value of products.
  • To Increase Labor Intensive Workforce: Countries like India where population is more than 100 crores, the GI plays a vital role by providing employment to million of peoples of a particular sector especially handicraft and handlooms.
  • Accumulation of foreign capital so as to increase national income and G.D.P. of the country.

What is GI:
Geographical Indications (GIs) means on indications which identifies goods as agricultural goods, natural goods or manufactured goods as originating or manufactured in the territory of a country or a region or locality is that territory where a given quality, reputation or characteristics of such goods is essentially attributable to its geographical origin and in case where such goods are manufactured, goods one of the activities of either the production or of processing or preparation of goods concerned takes place in such territory region or locality as the case may be place names are sometimes used to identify a product for ex-champagne scotch, Tequila and Roquefort cheese.

Advantages of GI:

  • It prevents unauthorized use of registered Geographical Indication goods by third parties.
  • It boosts Experts.
  • It promotes economic prosperity of producers.
  • Only an authorized user has the exclusive rights to use the Geographical Indication in relation to goods in respect of which it is registered.

Goal of the Project: Five Handicraft products will recognize as Intellectual Property of India with the support of O/o Development Commissioner (Handicrafts).

Objectives of the Project (GI Registration of the Handicraft Product):

  1. To protect the India’s Traditional culture, heritage through Handicraft.
  2. To save the livelihood opportunities to the Artisans.
  3. To accelerate the Export potential of handicraft goods.
  4. To adopt Handmade products culture in place of machines.
  5. To involve more women power in the handicraft sector.
  6. To promote socio – economic condition of the artisan community.

List of the Handi Craft Products for G.I.
Five Handicraft Items –

  1. Metal Repousse Work of Varanasi.
  2. Gulabi Meenakari of Varanasi
  3. Wooden Lackerwear of Varanasi
  4. Black Clay Pottary of Nizamabad (Azamgarh district),
  5. Mirzapuri Punja Dari

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