Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board will organise Khadi Fashion Melas in 2019 to popularise khadi products and make them easily available to people.
Chairperson of Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board, Gargi Kakkar on Saturday said that first online Khadi Selling Centre of the state has already been launched and Khadi selling stores would be opened at the district level and also outside the State.
Kakkar said through the Boards’ initiative of online Khadi selling centres, Khadi would reach the common people, adding that spinningcotton on Charkha has taken a bigger form and today wearing Khadi has become fashion.
She said the Government has been requested to arrange an adequate budget to the Board to promote Khadi production.
“Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board would complete its 50 years in February 2019,” she said, adding that no previous governments had ever taken such initiative for the promotion of khadi as taken by the present government under chief minister Manohar Lal.
She said all efforts would be made to establish the identity of Khadi products of Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board in the country as well as abroad.
The Chairperson of Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board said that not only the first online Khadi selling center has been launched but its brand- Har Khadi and logo has also been released. She said that such stores would also be opened in other districts on a priority basis and would be linked with self-help groups. Besides this, products of Khadi and Village Industries would be made available in Tourism Corporation and other selling centers.