Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) will join hands with private sector to display its products at renowned outlets of major cities in Punjab. As a pilot project, TEVTA is displaying its projects at Home Gallery DHA Lahore. This cooperation will be beneficial for the promotion and marketing of dwindling arts of blue pottery in Lahore. Through this joint venture, the TEVTA will have a great opportunity to introduce the ancient Multani art (Blue Kashigiri).
This was stated by Chairperson TEVTA Irfan Qaiser Sheikh while inaugurating the products of blue pottery at Home Gallery in presence of Chief Executive Officer Home Gallery Amer Hafeez Bajwa, Chief Operating Officer TEVTA Jawad Ahmad Qureshi, Members Executive Committee Lahore Chamber Rizwan Shamsi, Nasira Taskeen, TEVTA Officers Akhtar Abbas Bharwana, Azhar Iqbal Shad, Umer Farooq, Maqsood Ahmed, Mustafa Kamal Pasha, Amer Hassan, Sarfaz Anwar and other TEVTA officers concerned.
Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said that TEVTA is already striving for the revival of dwindling art by producing skilled workforce in the field of ceramics, especially in blue pottery across the province of the Punjab. He further highlighted that these TEVTA products are handcrafted by the students of TEVTA under the supervision of master craftsmen. Now, it will also be showcased at Home Gallery. This project will prove to be successful example of Public Private Partnership and TEVTA is looking forward towards establishing a linkage with other reputed outlets on the same pattern in near future, he further added.
The Chairperson further unfolded that this combined venture is step forward towards the promotion of this art on larger scale and will open new horizons for the growth of this industry.
He further apprised that TEVTA is upgrading its Multan's institute engaged in revival of this ancient art which on completion will prove to be a torch-bearer for the industry. People from different walks of life including representatives of industry also attended the inauguration ceremony and appreciated the joint efforts of TEVTA and Home Gallery for promotion of Multani Art (Blue Kashigiri).
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