As part of the Gandhi’s Champaran Satyagrah centenary celebrations, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) on Wednesday organised several programs at Patna and Motihari, the district headquarters of East Champaran.
KVIC Chairman VK Saxena informed that the commisison has set up the largest pavilion in Gandhi Maidan in Patna.
Saxena also informed that the State unit of the KVIC organised a State-level exhibition at Town Hall Maidan in Motihari, where local Khadi institutions and Prime Minister Employment Generation Program (PMEGP) units of five districts of Bihar and adjoining States took active part.
“Besides providing 60 eight-spindle New Model Charkha (NMC) to East Champaran Khadi Gramodyog Sangh, the KVIC also distributed five charkhas and one looms each in those 13 villages which Mahatma Gandhi had visited during his Satyagrah Movement in 1917,” he said, adding, “One Khadi Sammelan (conclave) was also held at Town Hall there in which as many as 500 artisans from Bihar and adjoining states showed their enthusiastic participations.”
Saxena further informed that as a token of respect to Mahatma Gandhi, the ‘Bara Bariarpur Bypass Chowk’of Motihari had been rechristened as ‘Charkha Chowk’. “The sanction letters of loan under PMEGP in Motihari district were also distributed among the beneficiaries on this occasion,” he added.