AGARTALA, August 4 (TIWN): The Tripura Bamboo Mission is Initiative of the Government of Tripura to develop the bamboo sector in the state in a holistic manner. The mission aims to double livelihood involvement and the sector turnover in a span of three years. It aims to optimize the end-to-end value chain spanning from plantation & resource generation to marketing of value added finished products.

The mission has a sub sector specific focus that includes handicrafts, furniture, incense, sticks & blinds, mat and industrial application of bamboo. The project is being implemented by IL&FS CDI based on a Public Private Partnership Framework.

Tripura produces 45,000 MT of bamboo sticks per annum. Under the TBM, 10% of the sticks produced (2000 MT) will be rolled into raw incense every year. This would result in additional employment generation of over 8000 women home based workers and an increase in per capita income from present levels of Rs 15 per day to Rs 36  per day.

 Nowadays North Ganganagar Incense Rolling Center i.e Integrated Development of Incense cluster in Tripura is going ahead of Capacity Building project  under Ministry of DoNER,GOI.

 A training camp was organized by Tripura Bamboo Mission on Capacity Building on Mechanized Incense rolling from 30^th July to 28^th August 2015 here at North Ganganagar under North Tripura. More than 50 artisans are working day and night.

Activity of North Ganganagar Incense Rolling Center North Tripura r is progressing rapidly. The only objective of such kind of center is to building up bamboo based livelihoods. The Tripura Bamboo Mission is an initiative aimed at the integrated development of bamboo sector in Tripura. The focus is on Capacity building highly competitive clusters leading to an agglomerated economy of bamboo based products that range from bamboo based handicrafts, furniture, sticks & blinds to higher valued added technology intensive industrial applications of bamboo.