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Rural Women Employment through Khadi

Rural Women Employment through Khadi
Start Date :
Feb 01, 2015
Last Date :
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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Neeraj Rathore
Neeraj Rathore 11 years 7 months ago
Respected sir, can you please help people who are in Jail for "false dowry" cases because i beleive 75% of people in jail are for dowry cases. My brother z in jail from last 14months, aligations are made by inlaws that they gave 3lakh dowry and the husband was demanding another 50,000 and a bike. All this is false. And as per law they should get punished if they are accepting that they have given dowry. His and like him thousands of person's life n.future are almost ended because of this.
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ojes bagga
ojes bagga 11 years 7 months ago
Hello. just wanted to share one idea. We in India are 120 crore people. Imagine if we have a way by which we can collect 1 Rupee per month from every individual weather rich or poor, weather beggar or a millionaire. By this we can accumulate 120 crore rupees every month and which can be used in building schools for the children who cant afford. I don't think even a beggar will have a problem giving 1 rupee per month and in return his/her child will get education, meal and shelter.
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bharath kumar
bharath kumar 11 years 7 months ago
Establishing world class smart phones- since major percentage of Indian population is youth demand for smartphone is increasing greatly and there is Avery Gud market for smart phonea 1) Various indian phone companies like micromax, lemon, intex, lava etc must come together on a single platform, invest Gud amount of money on R&D and develop a world class smart phones
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namdev tarachandani
namdev tarachandani 11 years 7 months ago
I strongly suggest to related authorities to provide FACE MASK to all full time sweepers to protect DUST in their breathing and a SUN CAP to protect direct sun light on face and eyes.
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bajrang goel
bajrang goel 11 years 7 months ago
Development of rural population should be more emphasised as about 68-70% of our population lives in villages. Their development will create more demand from rural masses & lead to set up of more manufacturing units which is highly essential to provide employment to our youth.Over the years, our contribution of manufacturing has gone down in GDP....which is better understood by present government. CONGRATSSS...for a tilt in policy & making INDIA towards self reliant by programme-MAKE IN INDIA.
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bajrang goel
bajrang goel 11 years 7 months ago
JUDICIARY...our judiciary is one pillar out of four pillars of our NATION. But feeling very depressed when we consider the state of affairs.Many laws are still in force although they hv lost their importance in present context.Review of laws should be a constant ongoing exercise rond the year . New laws / modifications are required before a mesh is created.We can think of double shifts working in certain areas to get better usage of infrastructure & helping in clearing the backlogs.
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bajrang goel
bajrang goel 11 years 7 months ago
SKILL DEVELOPMENT the slogan of Sh. Modi ji. All engineers/ technologists don't work on machines but they guide the skilled forces. Therefore, at NATIONAL LEVEL a SKILL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION can be set like UGC. Subsequently, each state can develop a SKILL UNIVERSITY & create courses as per their demand-industry based in that state, agriculture requirements, services requirements etc. Existing ITI'S can be modified on these grounds.Detailed studies are required at each district level too.
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bajrang goel
bajrang goel 11 years 7 months ago
As per data of finance ministry report, thousands crores rupees of taxes lie in litigation due to umbiguity in explanation of law. When the laws will be made easy to understand, without any doubts? I feel, special courts should be enacted by the government to recover this money at faster pace & give a message too, to the people indulging in such acts. or the collection machinery.Litigation takes years to get the solution & till that time, funds are not collected.
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bajrang goel
bajrang goel 11 years 7 months ago
The materials/ things which are used by majority of population should be considered first for stream lining the taxation-excise/custom/vat. It gives a direct benefit at the customer level & therefore,major chunk of population gets satisfied & leaves an impression on minds of public.But to generate revenue is also important for development work.Therefore, items of primary usage/ rural mass can be taxed lower; items of secondary usage can be moderately taxed: items of luxary can be taxed at higher
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bajrang goel
bajrang goel 11 years 7 months ago
AGRICULTURE INCOME TAXATION- Presently agriculture income is not taxed although this class enjoys a host of subsidies. Therefore, this class of population too should be taxed like all other indian citizens-why make their income tax free. It is also like a business involving raw materials, land, labour to produce a final product-crop.
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