As part of Mahatma Gandhi’s Champaran Satyagrah centenary celebrations, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), organised several programmes at Patna and Motihari, the district headquarters of East Champaran.
Chairman V K Saxena informed that KVIC had set up the largest pavilion at Gandhi Maidan. “Selfie with Gandhi and honey-bee information centres were hot spots and most visited places at Patna and Motihari as well,” he said.
Saxena also informed that the state unit of KVIC had organised a state-level exhibition at Town Hall Maidan in Motihari, where local khadi institutions and Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) units of five districts of Bihar and adjoining states took an active part. “Besides providing 68-spindle new model charkhas (NMC) to East Champaran Khadi Gramodyog Sangh, KVIC also distributed five charkhas and one loom each in 13 villages which Mahatma Gandhi had visited during his Satyagraha Movement in 1917,” he said, adding, “One Khadi Sammelan (conclave) was also held at Town Hall with 500 artisans from Bihar and adjoining states.”