Cumulative employment increased to 1.94 million rupees in fiscal year 2015 compared to 1.3 million rupees in fiscal year 2014 | Photo credit: special arrangement
The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) said Monday that it has achieved high historical sale or around ₹ 1.7 Lakh Crore fiscal year 2024-25.
The Commission has not given the corresponding figures for the last prosecutor. A written response from the Minister of State in the MSME (micro, small and medium enterprises), Shobha Karandlaje declared that sales exceeded the ₹ 1.56 Lakh Crore in the fiscal year24. This means that sales grew more than 9.5 percent in fiscal year 2015. Production increased to about ₹ 1.17 Lakh Crore compared to ₹ 1.08 Lakh Crore (as reported in a response in Parliament), which shows growth or around 8 percent. The production figure has also climbed a new high.
Boj Kumar, president or KVIC, said production increased four times in fiscal year 2015 compared to more than ₹ 26000 million rupees in fiscal year 2014. Duration This period, sales increased almost five times from more than ₹ 31 billion rupees in fiscal year 2014. Khadi’s production and sales recorded a growth of 366 percent and 561 percent, respectively. The regular promotion of Khadi’s Prime Minister Modi may also have increased production and sales.
The performance in the last 11 years also showed that cumulative employment increased to 1.94 million rupees in fiscal year 2015 compared to 1.3 million rupees in fiscal year 2014, a growth of 49 percent. Since the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Employment Generation program scheme, more than 10 Lakh units have been established. For these units, the Government announced the subsidy or ₹ 27,000 million rupees for a loan or around ₹ 73000 million rupees. Until now, more than 90 Lakh of people are working through PMEGP, Kumar said.
He said that, in the last 10 years of 7.43 LAKH of apprentices, more than 4.27 Lakh (more than 57 percent) are women. In addition, 80 percent of the 5 Lakh Khadi Artisans are also women. In the last 11 years, “Khadi artisan wages have shot at 275 percent, while in the last three years, it has been increased by 100 percent,” he said.
Posted on April 21, 2025
