Khadi fabric progress doubles in 5 years!

8.49 % growth in only 5 years!

Khadi fabric has experienced an enormous jump -- 8.49 per cent to be exact -- in the total textile mill creation in the five-year period 2014-19. This is regarding to Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).

The total mill fabric production might have dropped from 2,486 million square metres in 2014-15 to 2,012 million square metres in 2018-19, however the production of Khadi has seen a steady rise from 4.23 per cent of the entire textiles production to 8.49 % in the last fiscal year.

This rise in production could be due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to look at the indigenous fabric of Khadi, pointed KVIC Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena.

More on the same, he added “It really is encouraging for all of us that rise found in the talk about of Khadi production found in the textiles sector within the last 5 years has gone from 4.23 % to 8.49 %, which is twice of what it was in 2014. While from 1956 to 2013-14, the Khadi sector cloth development could reach the figure of 105.38 million square metres, within the last five years (from 2014-15 to 2018-19) it produced another 65.42 square million metres,” he said.

In the modern times, the MSME Ministry and KVIC have taken notice of the needs of the artisans by introducing new policies. This has attracted a huge number of personnel in this direction, hence enabling such a significant growth in the production of this fabric.

“We started registration of new Khadi organizations for widening the scope for career and also revival of defunct Khadi organizations, consequently increasing the quantity of artisans to 4,94,684. Not just that, the KVIC had as well laid stress on various artisan-centric programmes since 2015 like distribution of 32,000 New Model Charkhas and 5,600 contemporary looms,” Saxena added.