{"id":35884,"date":"2025-02-03T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/gujarat-government-strengthens-sapti-to-promote-stone-craft-industry\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:48:09","slug":"gujarat-government-strengthens-sapti-to-promote-stone-craft-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/gujarat-government-strengthens-sapti-to-promote-stone-craft-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat Government Strengthens SAPTI to Promote Stone Craft Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><strong>Gandhinagar\u00a0 (Gujarat) [India], February 03:<\/strong> <\/span>The Stone Artisan Park Training Institute (SAPTI), established under the vision of Shri Narendra Modi, is being strengthened to provide training, employment, and market opportunities in the stone craft industry. Operating from Ambaji and Dhangadhra, SAPTI empowers rural and tribal youth with skills in stone carving and sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>Under recent reforms, SAPTI now operates under direct government oversight, with a State Nodal Unit ensuring better coordination. Infrastructure upgrades include hostels, advanced training labs, and faculty residences, supported by GMDC.<\/p>\n<p>SAPTI has partnered with Kaushalya \u2013 The Skill University (KSU) and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University to offer certified diploma courses, with plans for degree programs.<\/p>\n<p>To expand market reach, SAPTI has launched the \u201cAARAR\u201d brand, with retail outlets at Ambaji Temple Trust and upcoming stores at Ekta Mall, Kevadia. E-commerce initiatives are also in progress.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib\" src=\"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/postpressreleasecontenta74cab13-a188-414a-df5d-6242e74c66be.png\" data-key=\"\" data-unqkey=\"\" data-loadmore=\"0\" data-datasize=\"0\" data-showentries=\"0\" data-totalentries=\"0\" data-url=\"\" data-message=\"Invalid request\"><\/p>\n<p>SAPTI promotes Gujarat\u2019s stone artisans at national and international exhibitions and hosts the \u201cShilpotsav\u201d festival, showcasing sculptures on themes like spirituality, heritage, and environmental conservation. These works are displayed at Ambaji, Gandhinagar, and the Statue of Unity.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, SAPTI aims to establish a dedicated e-commerce platform, introduce new academic programs, and strengthen Gujarat\u2019s global footprint in stone art and sculpture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gandhinagar\u00a0 (Gujarat) [India], February 03: The Stone Artisan Park Training Institute (SAPTI), established under the vision of Shri Narendra Modi, is being strengthened to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[625],"class_list":["post-35884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}