AGARTALA, Aug 18 (TIWN): Tripura Bamboo mission on Thursday organised a program at Pragna Bhawan and urged to invest in Bamboo to achieve ‘stand up India’.

However, program was inaugurated in presence of Principal Secretary Industries and commerce M. Nagaraju and others.

Tripura Bamboo Mission will strengthen the bamboo based clusters in the state and build their competitive advantage through an integrated approach of building infrastructure, linking markets and providing technology, skills, design and institutional development.

Tripura Bamboo Mission (TBM) is an initiative of the Government of Tripura  for integrated development of bamboo sector in the state. The Mission’s objectives of scaling up turnover of Bamboo sector and simultaneously increasing livelihood opportunities for poor are sought to be achieved through cluster development approach involving institution building, technological linkage, better market and credit facilities coupled with resource upgradation, working on a project mode. Majority of the beneficiaries  are women and minorities who comprise of the poorest sections of the population in the state.