As a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi’s work in Africa and to showcase the famous tool of self-reliance of Mahatma in Uganda, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) on Saturday in Delhi handed over a ‘Wooden Gandhi Charkha’ to the representative of the India’s High Commission in Kampala (Uganda).
KVIC Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena and Chief Executive Officer BH Anil Kumar handed over the ‘Wooden Gandhi Charkha’ weighing around 25 kilograms made of high-quality teak wood. It is 3.6 feet long, 1 foot 11 inch tall and 1.5 feet wide.
“By putting up this Charkha in Uganda, we will commemorate a great man, who worked hard to spread a message of peace, non-violence and self-reliance in the world,” Saxena said.
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Giriraj Singh also hailed the KVIC’s decision to provide this Charkha for Gandhi Jayanti celebrations in Uganda.
To promote Gandhian philosophy of self-reliance, the KVIC recently installed a high-quality stainless-steel climate-resistant Charkha (21 feet long, 10 feet tall and 6 feet wide) at Connaught Place in New Delhi. Prior to it, the KVIC had installed a four-tonne World’s largest Charkha (30 feet long, 17 feet tall and 9 feet wide), made of high-quality Burma teak wood at Terminal 3 of Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in New Delhi.