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NEW MILESTONE since 2015-16. The sale has also gone
IN PRODUCTION up by nearly three times during the same
period. The total turnover of KVIC in 2019-
Annual average -20 reached Rs 88,887 Crore, which no
production of Khadi FMCG company can even match. The
fabric was 17.80 unprecedented growth in the use of Khadi
lakh square meters
from 1956 to products during the present Government
2013-14 can be gauged from the fact that its
production has grown at an average of
19.45 per cent per annum since 2015-16,
Annual average which was merely 6.25 per cent during
production the previous government i.e from 2004
increased to 1.58 to 2014.
Crore square meters Sale of Khadi products grew
in just 6 years from exponentially during the present
2014 to 2019-20 Government at the annual rate of 27.6 per
cent, which remained as low as 6.65 per
cent, from 2004 to 2014. The production
of Khadi items, which was pegged at Rs
PM’S APPEAL SPINS A FINE 1,066 Crore in 2015-16, shot up to Rs
THREAD IN KHADI 2,292.44 Crore in 2019-20, registering an

Production & sales hit new high increase of over 115 per cent. The sale
of Khadi fabric products increased by
179 per cent from Rs 1,510 Crore in 2015
Sector 2013-14 2019-20 -16 to a whopping Rs 4,211.26 Crore in
2019-20.
Production Sale Production Sale Popular with gen-next
Khadi `811.08 `1,081.04 `2,292.44 ` 4,211.26 Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in
Village `25,298 `26,689 `65,393.40 `84,675.39 2014 planned to make Khadi popular
Industry Production & Sales Figures in Crore among the youth. Following his plan,

KVIC too started marketing its products
Employment just like any other private brand. Now, it

2014-20 offers even Indo-Western outfits. Besides
apparels, a wide range of products like
Honey Mission cosmetics, soaps, shampoos, Ayurvedic
13,657 medicines, honey, oils, tea, pickles, papads
and leather items are offered to attract
Khadi customers across the country and even
About 3 Lakh from abroad. This has resulted in doubling

Khadi Village Industry the production and sale of village industry
products in five years. KVIC Chairman
About 30 Lakh Vinai Kumar Saxena attributed Khadi’s
phenomenal growth to the sustained
efforts of the Prime Minister.

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