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Rural Women Employment through Khadi

Rural Women Employment through Khadi
Start Date :
Feb 01, 2015
Last Date :
Apr 01, 2015
00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Khadi is not merely a piece of cloth. It is a philosophy. A way of life. A symbol of empowerment, self-dependence, pride of history, Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of the relevance of ...

Khadi is not merely a piece of cloth. It is a philosophy. A way of life. A symbol of empowerment, self-dependence, pride of history, Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of the relevance of roots.

As Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi on his radio program “Mann ki Baat” on 3rd October, 2014 said that “we must promote the use of Khadi and we should buy at least one Khadi article. If you buy Khadi, you light the lamp of prosperity in the house of the poor”.This appealled to an increase in Khadi sales by 125% at the various outlets in India. This reflects a latent demand for Khadi, which needs to tapped which in turn will create rural employment. Potential consumers of Khadi could be schools, hospitals, Railways, PSUs, Army, Para-military forces, Fashion houses etc.

USP of the Khadi product is its eco-friendly, almost carbon neutral nature, which leaves near zero water footprints. It is socio-economically sustainable textile product. It’s an all-weather and allergy free fabric. Hence, Khadi use is a step towards ‘Zero Effect’ and ‘Zero Poverty’ India.

Currently, people employed in Khadi sector are earning Rs.1200 to Rs.1800 per month. MGIRI Wardha has developed a Solar Charkha which can increase the earnings to four times the existing one, cutting the drudgery along.Taking the initiative forward, MoMSME is going to start a pilot project in the KHANWA village, Nawada district of Bihar, where 100 Solar Charkhas would be distributed to the rural women for spinning of yarn. Under buyback arrangement with ‘Gram Nirmaan Mandal, Khadi Sansthan, GAYA, these yarns would be weaved into Khadi products. This scheme islikely to provide Rs.5000 to 8000 per month to the women artisans.This model of wage earnings to the rural women has to be scaled up so as to achieve the visionary goal of providing job opportunities to crores of rural women in coming years.

This, in turn is expected to lay a platform for another visionary goal of increasing the market share of Khadi in the textile sector from present 0.4% to 5% in next Five years in first phase.

In pursuance of the above twin visionary goals, you are requested to give your valuable inputs on

1. How to enhance the production and sale of Khadi?
2. How to create a niche for Khadi products particularly among youths and about 2.5 crore NRIs living abroad?
3. How to foster awareness about Khadi products?

The last date for submission of your comments is 31st March, 2015.

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Ashwani Kumar
Ashwani Kumar 11 years 6 months ago
1. We should have tie up with all the leading brands and use their outlets to increase the footprint of khadi products shops 2. Goverment of India should rope in film star, sports man,Corporate headhonchos to encourage the Indian , NRI and Non Indian to use khadi clothes 3. Publicity on DD channels , Regional channela , each and every newspaper and all this talk about the benefits of khadi usage and economic benefits to our country
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LAKSHMEESH BHAT
LAKSHMEESH BHAT 11 years 6 months ago
Govt should have plans for Urban as well as Rural Development. Urban development is important but is of no significance to Rural people.Not much is heard from Govt on plans for Rural development. They need decent health care & Doctor at their reach, clean drinking water, electricity (ensured during dark hours), good road /connectivity to town. This is the true development for rural people and only then they realise that the Govt is honest on their Development agenda and support later.
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Vishwanatha Nagaraja
Vishwanatha Nagaraja 11 years 6 months ago
E-commerce is the best platform to promote Khadi Sales, which in turn empower Rural Women Employment. As we all know E-commerce is one of the fastest growing platform to reach out to people very quickly. We can see million of buyers on FlipKart, Myntra, Amazon etc. We are working on a project to promote and sell Khadi & Desi items online, if Govt supports us by providing Tax & Other benifits, we can implement the same. Pl contact us @ enquirieswrite2me@gmail.com to get further details.
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Premjith Prabhakaran
Premjith Prabhakaran 11 years 6 months ago
RURAL WOMEN CAN WORK UNDER A NATIONAL BRAND FOR KHAD... LET THAT BE SURAJYA.. THEY CAN MAKE ANY PRODUCT AND MARKET UNDER THE SAME TRADE NAME. THEY CAN CREATE A FREE RETAIL MOVEMENT... THEN EVERY WOMAN IN RURAL INDIA WILL GET A LIVELYHOOD...
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K J SHAH
K J SHAH 11 years 6 months ago
senior citizens are exempted from paying icome Tax upto a limit of 2.25 lacs.More then 80% of senior citizens have only one source of income i.e.income from Interest on Bank Deposits, Can We not consider waiver for submission of Form 15H for non deduction of tax at source from interest payable on deposits.? Similarly limit of income from rent for the purpose of TDS is not revised for last many years although inflation has contineously gone uo. LIMIT requires to be enhenced immediately.
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Ramesh V
Ramesh V 11 years 6 months ago
I am a big supporter of this government but wish to highlight that your image , achievements and intentions are getting spoilt by unhealthy noises and actions being made by some people and groups which hurt some sections and religions. What is needed is for the government to be seen as not tolerating such negative behavior. Your silence is being mistaken for support for such actions. Also, it is time people saw some concrete positives at the street level , not just in economic papers.
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Deepak Saxena
Deepak Saxena 11 years 6 months ago
As a common honest Tax Paying citizen of India it is a sincere request to do away the double taxation policy on the Salaried Tax payer. First there is TDS on salaries and thereafter we have to pay other taxes in form of VAT, Service Tax etc. to various agencies (grocers, furniture shops, Hospitals etc.) from the net take home salary after deduction of Tax. The actual Income Tax rate for the Salaried Tax payer thus becomes almost close to 50%
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Sushil Kumar
Sushil Kumar 11 years 6 months ago
Development of any country/ State/ City or village depends on the quality of education. There is no quality in education system of Bharat. Because education here in Bharat is only a business. Govt schools and colleges has shrunk in poor community. A teacher of govt School is drawing a big salary but his child is studding in big private school because he knows what type of teaching we are delivering. This is a biggest break in Bharat Vikash. It requires remission.
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