Khadi and Village Industry Commission (KVIC) distributed as many as 50 leather kits and 350 Bee-Boxes with live bee colonies in tribal-dominated village in Sirohi district of Rajasthan on World Tribal Day.
Sirohi is one of the aspirational districts in India identified by the NITI Aayog.
KVIC also launched a new programme ‘Leather Mission’ on World Tribal Day from the tribal-dominated village of Chandala.
Under this new programme, KVIC will give Leather Kits to the leather artisans across the nation.
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (or) World Tribal Day is celebrated on August 09 every year.