Anup Chandra Pandey, IAS, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh recently conferred the prestigious Ajay Shankar Memorial Awards for the best design and display stands at the 46th edition of IHGF-Delhi Fair Autumn 2018. These awards for the Best design & Display Stand are awarded in the categories of houseware, table, kitchen and hotelware, fashion jewellery & accessories, furniture, furniture hardware & home accessories, home textiles, furnishing & floor coverings, lamp lighting & accessories, Christmas decoratives and festive décor. In each of these categories Gold, Silver and Bronze trophies were distributed.
Pandey also appreciated EPCH for setting up various infrastructure projects in the state for the promotion and development of handicrafts such as the Common Facility Center, National Centre for Photo and Picture Framing Technology, Technology Upgradation Center at Saharanpur, Resource Center at Moradabad and State-of-the-art Exposition Centre i.e. India Expo Centre and Mart at Greater Noida. He urged the state government to set up more common facility centres as required by the artisans and exporters.
