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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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TUSHAR JOSHI
TUSHAR JOSHI 11 years 2 months ago
Government focus on modern design and make some marketing team for sell Khadi to our country and abroad. We have many product to sell out side of India but we want some world wide best marketing team and Design team.
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mohit goel
mohit goel 11 years 2 months ago
KHADI IS ONE OF THE MOST TRADITIONAL CLOTH IN INDIA. OUR NATOINAL FATHER USED TO WEAR KHADI CLOTHES.BUT NOW KHADI CLOTHES ARE USED BY LESS PEOPEL.IF RURAL WOMEN EMPLOYED TRROUGH KHADI THEY NOT ONLY BECOME SELF DEPENDENT MOREOVER OUR TRADITIONAL CLOTHES ONCE AGAIN IN PUBLIC EYES. KHADI CLOTHES CAN EAISLY MADE BY WOMEN.
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Samridhi Gandharva
Samridhi Gandharva 11 years 2 months ago
Women are associated with domestic activities like cooking, weaving,etc. Why not make their hobby into an income? Not only would this break the stereotipical notion against but would also help them generate additional income. In reference to NREGA acts like WEEKI-women empowerment through employment in khadi industries must be passed. Not only would this uplift their positon economically but also socially. Also these MSMEs would promote regional balance. #WomenEmploymentIsEmpowerment
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BRIJESH RATHOD
BRIJESH RATHOD 11 years 2 months ago
If we have guts for rural women, we can create an environment for Khadi as our "Hon. Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru did in past." Encourage people who wears khadi rather then encouraging western clothes. Now we have a time to do work for rural mothers and sisters & work for nation for creating environment so that they earn in competitive world.
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Amit Srivastava
Amit Srivastava 11 years 2 months ago
The access of women particularly those belonging to weaker sections including Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes/ Other backward Classes and minorities, majority of whom are in the rural areas and in the informal, unorganized sector – to education, health and productive resources, among others, is inadequate. Therefore, they remain largely marginalized, poor and socially excluded.Plight of Rural Women persist across the country.
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Rama Murthy Prabhala Prabhala
Rama Murthy Prabhala Prabhala 11 years 2 months ago
We should empower the Rural women with technology to make their products mainstream. An integrated portal ( market place ) for their products is one way. I have experimented with one village and it works.
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NILESH GUPTA_1
NILESH GUPTA_1 11 years 2 months ago
Sir In my point of view, The rebate on sales of Khadi and Khadi products is made available by the Government so as to make the price of Khadi and Khadi products competitive with other textiles. Normal rebate (10 per cent) all through the year and an additional special rebate (10 per cent) for 108 days in a year.
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NILESH GUPTA_1
NILESH GUPTA_1 11 years 2 months ago
Gandhiji conceived Khadi Programme as a key to solve the economic problems of the country. According to him “ Its’one great merit is that it solves, as nothing else cab, the economic problem of Indian and removes starvation” (collected works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 23:45859). In the year 1925 he wrote in Young India “If we want the millions to earn a few paises by doing honest and honorable work, the only possible instrument to present them with,is the gentle and graceful spinnig wheel."
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saurabh agrawal
saurabh agrawal 11 years 2 months ago
The other day i was at Levi's store, they were selling khadi garments at much higher price than what handloomers get. A tie up with idigenious modern brands can do a lot good.
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