Arifa among Modi’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ on Women’s Day

Kashmiri woman Arifa Jan, who has spun a success story of her own through revival of the Valley’s Numdah handicraft, on Sunday tweeted on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter handle to emphasise that women should focus on becoming self-reliant and also help other women.

Earlier, the Prime Minister Narendra announced that sevenwomen achievers will share their life journeys and interact with people throughhis social media accounts on the occasion of Women’s Day.

   

Jan, 33, is the third womanachiever after Chennai-based social worker Sneha Mohandoss and bomb-blastsurvivor Malvika Iyer among the seven who tweeted — minutes after receivingNari Shakti Puraskar for 2019 — from Modi’s Twitter handle on Sunday to markInternational Women’s Day.

Jan was awarded along with 15 other women by President RamNath Kovind.

Modi had announced on March 3 to give his social mediaplatforms to women to handle on March 8.

“This gesture by PM@narendramodi has boosted my moraleand it’ll help me to work harder for the betterment of the craft as well as theartisans all over Kashmir,” Jan tweeted. “I feel it is important for more women to focus on becomingself-reliant and help other women.”

In a series of tweets, Jansaid: “When tradition meets modernity, wonders can happen. I experiencedthis in my work. It is designed to suit the modern-day market. My firstbusiness activity was participating in an exhibition of handmade items in NewDelhi. This exhibit attracted a good clientele and a turnover.”

“I am Arifa from Kashmir and here is my lifejourney.”

Jan, the founder of Numdhah Handicrafts, has trained more than 100 women in Kashmir. She has employed 25 Kashmiri artisans and increased wages of her employees from Rs 175 to Rs 450 per day.  Jan was conferred for her outstanding achievement in the revival of felting craft of Kashmir by a leading business house in Kashmir in 2013, Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016, and S-E-A Award in an event organised by a cold drinks company and Jagrati Yatra at Mumbai in 2018. 

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