Central Silk Board has provided silk mark and vanya logo to Madhya Pradesh Silk federation for 100 percent quality certification of silk clothes. Minister for cottage and village industries and Chairman Madhya Pradesh Silk Federation Antar Singh Arya has informed this in the annual general meeting of the federation on Friday. Arya said that demand is increasing day by day in other states, keeping in view the quality of silk clothes of Madhya Pradesh.
He informed that federation is in profitable position this year too. Net profit of Rs 69.32 lakh has been earned by the federation in the year 2014-15. Around Rs 15.62 crore worth cocoon/thread and clothes were sold by the federation in the last financial year.
Moreover, Arya informed that Rs 2.80 crore worth silk cloth was sold by the federation by organizing sale melas in the last financial year. Federation will take part in exhibitions to be held at Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Vishakhapatnam, Kolkata, Indore, Chandigarh, lucknow, Ratlam and Surat in the current year. Around one crore worth rupees sale is expected from these exhibitions. MD Anil Shrivastava informed about the activities of the federation. Members of the federation from Balaghat, Hoshangabad, Narsinghpur and Mandla gave their suggestions and informed about the difficulties.