Etikoppaka toy stalls inaugurated at Visakhapatnam Railway Station
The Hindu
VISAKHAPATNAM
Colourful lacquer and wooden toys from Etikoppaka will greet passengers alighting and going to board trains on platform no. 1 and platform no. 8 (Gnanapuram side) of Visakhapatnam Railway Station.
The toy stalls have been launched by Waltair Division of East Coast Railway (E Co R) in association with Etikoppakka Lacquer and Wooden Toy Manufactures Mutually Aided Co-operative Society Ltd.
Divisional Railway Manager Anup Satpathy inaugurated the stalls, set up under the ‘One Station, One Product’ concept, on Friday.
ADRM (Infra) Sudhir Kumar Gupta, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager A.K/ Tripathi, Senior DCM-II Preethi Rana, DCM Urwashi Kumari, ACM GD Sarkar, ACM M. Chakravorthy and Station Director Manabesh Mishra were present.
Visakhapatnam is the first station in E Co R to implement the “One Station One Product” concept. The objective of the concept is to make each railway station a promotional hub and a showcase destination for a local product, thereby giving a major boost to local industries. The concept of “One station One Product” was announced by the Union government in the recent budget.
Etikoppakka wooden products are made with Ankudu Karra (Wrightia tinctoria) tree and coated with lacquer colors by hundreds of local artisans of Etikoppakka village of Yellamachili mandal in Visakhapatnam district.
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