Jaya Jaitly
FounderFounder of Dastkari Haat Samiti
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Jaya Jaitly is the founder of Dastkari Haat Samiti[1], an Indian non-profit working on arts & culture and livelihood from New Delhi.
Dastkari Haat Samiti
Dastkari Haat Samiti is a Delhi-based national association of craftspeople founded by Jaya Jaitly, working to preserve craft skills and improve artisan livelihoods by cutting out middlemen. It created Dilli Haat in 1994, which has enabled direct sales for over 75,000 artisans, and maps and documents crafts traditions across 24 states.
Dastkari Haat Samiti reports the following, on its own site:
- 75,000+ artisans enabled through Dilli Haat
- 120+ crafts bazaars organised nationwide and internationally
- 400 craftspeople behind the New Parliament's Shilp Gallery
- 24 craft maps documenting every state's heritage
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- New Delhi
- Founded
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- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Founder and President” — Dastkari Haat Samiti. Source
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