The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned a study on the impact evaluation of Geographical Indication (GI) products.
- This particular study will enable NABARD to analyse the benefits accrued to artisans/producers because of the GI tags over the years.
- As of today, 144 products supported by NABARD, are GI tagged. The first product that received a GI tag with support from NABARD, was Pochampally Ikat from the State of Telangana.
- So far, it has sanctioned projects for registration of 15,820 producers/manufacturers of GI products as authorised users, providing them the exclusive right to use registered GI.
- Some of the products for which artisans have registered as authorised users, include Banaras Brocades and Sarees (Uttar Pradesh), Blue Pottery of Jaipur (Rajasthan), Ilkal Saree (Karnataka), Jalna Sweet Orange (Maharashtra), Nakshi Kantha (West Bengal), etc.
