The Modi Government’s thrust on popularising Khadi is generating jobs for women of the minority community. A group of Muslim families in Chand Bagh area in northeast Delhi have sent him hand written letters praising him to the hilt.
The families are extremely happy, as their women have landed a job under a tailoring programme launched by a non-Governmental organisation with funding from Khadi and Village Industries Commission [KVIC].
Fifty-seven women, after getting training at the KVIC Training Centre, have started working and earning more than `200/- per day by stitching napkins. Each woman, on an average, stitches 100 Napkins per day. The KVIC pays `1.50 to `2.00 per napkin depending upon the size of the Napkin. It sells these napkins through its various sales outlets and supplies in bulk to various hotels and corporate houses as gift articles. The project was launched on March 15.
The KVIC Chairman Vinai Saxena initiated the project and is personally supervising it.
Thanking the Prime Minister profusely, Sultana, who is 12th passed, has urged him to hold such programmes across the country. “The economic situation of my family will now improve a lot. I want that my brothers and sisters in different parts of India also benefit,” she wrote.
Rizwana, in her letter, noted that by helping her to earn and contribute to the family’s kitty, the scheme assisted her to acquire an identity in the community.