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Rural Women Employment through Khadi

Start Date :

Feb 01, 2015

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Apr 01, 2015

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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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Bhuvana Prakash 11 years 6 months ago

There is a scheme by the gov. of India of building toilets in villages where contractors are given the construction job by the government. I suggest that the local daily wage workers should be trained and used for the work. This will assure them of wages and also prevent the upsconding of workers begoer the completion of the work. Presently, the work is being done pathetically. The workers have dug deep pits and left them open for a long time now which is causing a lot of problems.

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baiju velayudhan velayudhan 11 years 6 months ago

As we all are aware that Under Indian Constitution, Law is Supreme, All are equal in the eyes of Law and no one shall be punished without being given a chance to prove his/her innocence. If this is the case, why supreme court cannot form a Uniform Parental Civil Law for ALL Indians irrespective of caste, creed or religion to see that India ever remains a Secular Country. I strongly believe that all elected representatives of any party have the moral right to save India from communal disharmony.

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parul yadav 11 years 6 months ago

Khadi is best product but costly. So its production should be made high by making it taxfree and advertising for khadi on large scale.Doing this demand will increase and needrof workers will be needed providing more jobs with "Make in India" compaign

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Omkar Darekar 11 years 6 months ago

I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT THE PLEASE MAKE LIBRARY IN EVERY CITY AS WELL AS VILLAGE WHERE THE STUDENTS CAN STUDY GOOD. IF STUDENT STUDY WELL THEN OUR INDIA MOVING FORWARD. MAKE 2 TO 3 LIBRARY IN CITY AND 1 LIBRARY IN VILLAGE . SO WE CAN STUDY BETTER. I AM WAITING UR RESPOND. THANK YOU

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dhanapalan ak major 11 years 6 months ago

EDUCATION POLICY : I suggest that in Schools and colleges introduce YOGA,, PRANAYAMA and DHYANAN as compulsory and all GOVT/PVT OFFICES. SECONDLY no Political/union actvities should be allowed in the Schools/colleges.

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archana kumar 11 years 6 months ago

in the factories the women can work so the factory will improve , he people willget work

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Varadaraj Suvarna 11 years 6 months ago

First of all khadi production can be boosted by implementing khadi in students uniforms of both schools and colleges. Khadi can also be made compulsary in uniforms of state and central govt employees. Branding of khadi can be done by hosting khadi fashion shows or khadi melas at prominent locations of the country, most of the celebrities should take up the initiative, air hostess should be made to promote khadi by wearing khadi sarees. Khadi training institutes should start throughout country.

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PRAMOD KUMAR 11 years 6 months ago

PM Sir, ur attention is drawn to d heinous crime commited in Madhya Pradesh, called Vyapam Mahaghotala , whereby many ineligible students have been given admission for engineering medical PG medical etc & also thousands of ineligible persons were given govt service as police inspectors constables teachers forest guards etc. Dis was done by a technical education dept of MP govt & it's ministers & officials r in jail. This was going on since many years bt enquiries/actions is not up to mark.

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sudharani vaidya 11 years 6 months ago

With respect to Income Tax, I request Mr Arun Jaitley to invite a CA student to list down numerous deductions, which needs to be studied and changed to the present time. One example - Children Education Allowance of rupees 100 per month for two children allowed for 12 months. We need to look at the relevance of the amount and also check other allowances if they need to be dropped or to be redrafted or changed to meet the needs of the salaried class of today. Students take pain to remember them.

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Saurabh Jha 11 years 6 months ago

Marketing and bringing economies of scale is important to make any rural business successful, customers buy products which are marketed well. We need to establish a system which market these products.

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