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COVER
Cover
आवरण INDIAN PRODUCTS
STORY
Story
कथा
BECOMING GLOBAL
THE SALE OF LOCAL PRODUCTS BROKE RECORDS ON DIWALI

Khadi regaining its lost position Khadi India

Connaught Place, Delhi
sale on Gandhi Jayanti over
the years

`1,01,66,000

October 2, 2021

October 2, 2020
It is the result of the people's affinity for Swadeshi and
the appeal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Khadi `102.24 Lakh
is regaining its lost position. The figures themselves are
testimony to this fact. October 24, 2020

Production of Khadi Fabric 2019-20 198.29 `105.62 Lakh

103.22 Million square November 7, 2020

Million square meter
meter 2013-14 `106.18 Lakh

0.42 November 13, 2020

Million square `111.40 Lakh
meter 1956-57

The impact of Vocal for Local can also be
gauged from the fact that the sale of many
local products, including Khadi and other village
industries products, during the Diwali festival
AATMANIRBHARTA – in 2020 exceeded that of the previous year's
BECAME THE 2020 HINDI Diwali. Compared to Diwali in 2019, sales of many
WORD OF THE OXFORD agricultural products have increased by over 700
to 900 percent in 2020. Khadi India sold goods
DICTIONARY. worth more than Rs 1 crore per day in Delhi's
Connaught Place outlets in October-November,
2020. On Gandhi Jayanti this year on October 2, a
record sale of more than Rs 1 Crore was reported.
It is not Khadi alone that has become a testament
to India's increasing global footprints. Be it

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