Artisans and traders struggle to survive as the sector crumbles. Kashmir's centuries-old leather industry is facing an unprecedented crisis.
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00:00Haiya te alaa yuta hai, jai nama shindh baraara.
00:10Is maal choh tayar wa aachin kasta mawri thora.
00:14Is a common sense and wooshoo paani damsit kisa faraak hai.
00:17Yetch oh maal tayar ki wa deekach tayar wans choh koon.
00:19fir aadhar chohin aachin ba, aachin damsit ujuri yarthi keen.
00:22Cho hrith rupees laa waa ni baasta.
00:24Yuvaz vaara waara varsam varsam vochchi hratas rupees waeal
00:27If we don't do anything about it, the company will go bankrupt.
00:32The infrastructure in Kashmir has never developed.
00:37We can't say that...
00:39Kashmir was doing it at its own level.
00:41We had tourism here.
00:43It's our bad luck that in the past,
00:46in this district,
00:48we lost our foreign tourists.
00:51That's one of the reasons why we had a lot of problems.
00:58Leather has declined since 2014.
01:01It's growth is declining.
01:04The Government of India has banned cow slaughtering in Haryana.
01:11Other than that, cow lands, harassment, and the supply chain here...
01:15The policy of the UP Government in Haryana,
01:18which they banned,
01:20has led to a decline in the leather industry.
01:22This has impacted foreign investors
01:26who were doing leather business in India.
01:29When we were selling raw materials,
01:31our truck drivers were banning us from selling it there.
01:35Because they were harassed in between.
01:37Cow villagers were holding their vehicles,
01:40beating them up.
01:42Because of this, the supply chain has been disturbed.
01:53We have never created an infrastructure
01:57so that we can compete.
01:59Because this is the age of technology.
02:02We have never brought that technology here.
02:05What will artisan art do?
02:08Artisans have the technology,
02:11but they don't have the facilities.
02:14If we are facilitated,
02:16artisans here can do a lot.
02:18Why can't they?
02:21This Handicraft Handloom Policy of 2020,
02:25where we have been directed
02:29to do the handholding of artisans across the spectrum.
02:32We have 63 notified crafts.
02:36So we have to do handholding of all these craftsmen.
02:40The skill base is very huge.
02:43We have 3,40,000 artisans
02:45registered with the Directorate of Handicraft Handloom Kashmir only.
02:49Among these, fur and leather-based artisans
02:54can also avail this scheme.