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‘Khadi Plaza' to come up in Goa
Special Correspondent
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KVIC chief inaugurates ‘Goa Khadi Bazar-2011'
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PANAJI: Kumud Joshi, chairperson of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), has offered to set up a big “Khadi Plaza” in Goa in the next two years if suitable land was made available for the purpose by the State Government.
The KVIC intended to start “Khadi Mobile Van” in Goa to popularise and publicise khadi products, said the chairperson of KVIC at the inaugural function of a 15-day State-level exhibition “Goa Khadi Bazar-2011” at Ravindra Bhavan, Fatorda, Margao in south Goa, on Friday.
Governor S.S. Sidhu inaugurated the exhibition in the presence of Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and Monica Dias, Chairperson, Khadi Village Industries Board, Goa.
Ms. Joshi said that Khadi Commission had more than 3,000 institutions exclusively for khadi sector. She solicited cooperation of the governments to make wonders in khadi.
The exhibition-cum-sale of khadi and village industries products with the participation of around 100 stalls put up by artisans, craftsmen, khadi institutions and Rural Employment Generation Programme and the Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme units from throughout India from Kashmir to North Eastern States is being organised by KVIC.
Governor S.S. Sidhu said that promotion of khadi and village industries constituted the fundamental aspect of socio-economic planning because a majority of the people lived in rural areas, and it was imperative to provide all possible facilities to them so that they could be self-reliant.
The Governor said the importance of Khadi and Gram Udyog lay in the fact that this movement had succeeded to a large extent in preserving their traditional arts and crafts. Second, it had been successful in providing self-employment to a large number of people in rural areas, particularly to women, who constituted the weakest sections of society. Khadi movement had provided a big boost to rural handicrafts industry and rural employment. He said that Khadi and Gram Udyog had moved with the times as new concepts and new materials had come to be utilised on a large-scale in production of textiles and arts and crafts goods.
“Khadi has gone mod by adopting a blending technique in case of fabrics such as cotton, handloom fabrics, satins, silks synthetics and voils,” said Mr. Sidhu.
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