National Bamboo Mission

• The National Bamboo Mission recently launched the Management Information System to strengthen the domestic Agarbatti industry.

About the MIS Module

• It will collect data about Agarbatti production, availability of raw materials, location of stick making units, production capacity, functioning of units, etc.
• The system will act as an intermediary between the production units and the Agarbatti industry (as a whole). This will help to fill the information gaps.

National Bamboo Mission

• The National Bamboo Mission was launched in 2018-19.
• It is currently implemented in twenty one states.
• To boost the domestic Agarbatti units, the import duty on round sticks were increased to 25%. Also, the raw batti imports were moved from free to restricted category.