Central scheme · Ministry of Minority Affairs
Heritage skills, future livelihoods.
USTTAD strengthens traditional arts and crafts through skill upgrading, market connection and opportunity for minority communities.
Upgrading the Skills and Training in Traditional Arts/Crafts for Development is designed to build artisan capacity, preserve living traditions and connect skills with contemporary markets.
What delivery protects
Craft, capability and continuity.
Recognise
Identify traditional skills and the people who carry them.
Upgrade
Support structured training for artisans and minority youth.
Develop
Strengthen market readiness through design, product and packaging interventions.
Connect
Create routes to exhibitions, market linkages and livelihoods.
Delivery lens
Respect the craft. Manage the programme.
We make community-led skilling operationally robust without losing the local knowledge at its centre.
- Community mobilisation and beneficiary support
- Training coordination with master craftspeople
- Documentation and quality monitoring
- Market-linkage and outcome reporting