 To organize the traditional industries and artisans into clusters to make them competitive and provide support for their long term sustainability and economy of scale

 To provide sustained employment for traditional industry artisans and rural entrepreneurs

 To enhance marketability of products of such clusters by providing support for new products, design intervention and improved packaging and also the improvement of marketing infrastructure

 To equip traditional artisans of the associated clusters with the improved skills and capabilities through training and exposure visits

 To make provision for common facilities and improved tools and equipment for artisans to promote optimum utilization of infrastructure facilities

 To strengthen the cluster governance systems with the active participation of the stakeholders, so that they are able to gauge the emerging challenges and opportunities and respond to them in a coherent manner.