NEWS

The KSR Bengaluru Railway Station will market ‘Channapatna toys’ under the ‘One Station, One Product’ (OSOP) scheme

‘ONE STATION ONE PRODUCT’

• Announced in Union budget 2022-23
• Similar to the one when the ‘One District-One Product’ scheme was introduced

What is under the scheme :

• Stalls will be set up at railway stations across the country for the sale of specific products of that place
• Railway station at which the passengers will get down will be able to easily know about the particular product there
• For example, Lucknow’s Chicken Suit and Malihabadi Mango are very famous, so in such a situation, stalls of these products can be set up at big stations like Charbagh, Lucknow Junction, Aishbagh of Lucknow

What are the benefits :

• Bring opportunities in both the promotion and employment of the product
• Trains will also provide facility to send these products from one place to another
• Railways will develop efficient logistics for small farmers and enterprises
• Each railway station can be seen as a promotional center for a local product
• It will help develop more efficient logistics for farmers and agri-enterprises and offer unique regional products to a wider audience, i.e. railway passengers passing through the stations
• It aims to improve the supply chain of local produce by using railways

CHANNAPATNA TOYS

• Particular form of wooden toys and dolls
• Manufactured in the town of Channapatna in the Ramanagara
• Traditional craft
• Protected under geographical indication (GI)
• As a result of the popularity of these toys, Channapatna is known as the Gombegala Ooru (toy-town) of Karnataka
• Traditionally, the work involved lacquering the wood of the Wrightia tinctoria tree,colloquially called Aale mara (ivory-wood)