<h1>Sargaalaya festival and village expand as a government backed rural tourism hub to empower artisans and preserve crafts.</h1> The document presents SIACF and the Sargaalaya Village as a government supported rural tourism initiative that uses festivals, GI tagged product promotion, exhibitions, and institutional backing to empower artisans and sustain endangered crafts. It outlines planned development of year round cultural infrastructure-workshops, a Cultural Experience and Interpretation Centre, Living Heritage Programmes, residencies, documentation and digital archives-and a hub and spoke tourism model to integrate regional circuits, enhance market access, and convert cultural activity into sustained economic and educational structures.