Indian handicraft industry is the low technology but organized and dominated by Labour intensive industry. It is found that 20% of our indian handicraft products are rejected in the national and international market due to damages or quality problems. The acceptance percentage of the product is still in between the 80-90%.

There are still the problems in Indian handicraft industry which can be studied in five major areas  -

• Manufacturing and production management

• Operation management

• Market assessment and management

• Financial management

• Social, cultural and healthcare problems

Problems -

• high raw material and procurement cost

• low productivity

• Inefficient infrastructural facilities

• exchange rate changes  

• high transaction cost

• poor marketing of final product

• poor logistics and inventory

• un proper printing, packaging and other IT support facilities

• proper non communication between the national and international market

• limited availability of skilled manpower support

• Lack of quality control measurements

• Limited power supply

• Limited awareness problems

• many manufacturing units are operated from home

Recommendations for improving the handicrafts in India -

• value added manufacturing resources.

• Increment in bottleneck of resources

• Balancing establishment in the manufacturing processes and operations

• Timely management of financial resources like loans

• Suitable marketing strategies should be developed

• Proper export units should be developed

• Forming handicraft consortiums of manufactures and dealers

• Develop cost effective marketing channels

• Appropriate training and procurement on preparing the high quality product

• Developing common website for the promotion of the handicraft products

• Participating in national and international level consortiums

• Common IT support for different manufacturing units.

So these are the recommendations for handicrafts quality improvement in Indian Handicrafts! Thanks for reading the post !