Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the ‘training program for tailoring’ covering 1000 beneficiaries and distributed around 25 sewing machines to the beneficiaries of the first batch under the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) during the Credit Outreach Program in Sambalpur district in Odisha. Dharmendra Pradhan announced a collaborative effort for getting GI TAG for Sambalpuri IKAT. He also announced the setting up of India’s First Art and Craft Incubator at IIM Sambalpur.