For the development of khadi and village industries the
Government through an Act of Parliament had established in 1956 a Statutory Body named
“Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC)”.
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today the Union
Minister of MSME Shri Virbhadra Singh stated that at
present, there are 2065 khadi institutions functioning in the country and
assistance has been provided for setting up of around 4.33 lakh units under the
erstwhile Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP) and the present Prime
Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) upto July 2011.
Since the establishment of KVIC, Government has been
making various interventions from time to time through KVIC for the development
of the khadi and village industries sector including the following:
- Enhanced budget
allocation over the years for the khadi and village industries sector.
- Replacing the
erstwhile Rebate scheme with more flexible, growth stimulating and
artisans oriented scheme of Market Development Assistance from 2010-11.
- Taking up
development of 79 clusters in khadi and village industries sector for
their regeneration.
- Introduction of
three new schemes in the sector namely ‘Enhancing productivity and
competitiveness of khadi industry and artisans’, ‘workshed scheme for
khadi artisan’ and ‘Scheme for strengthening infrastructure of existing
weak khadi institutions and Assistance for marketing infrastructure’.
- To build up
entrepreneurship in the sector, a credit linked subsidy programme named
Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme has been launched in
2008-09 under which margin money assistance is provided to first
generation entrepreneurship to set up new units.
- Introduction of a
comprehensive Khadi Reform and Development Programme in 2009-10 with an
assistance of US $ 150 million from Asian Development Bank to benefit 300
khadi institutions.
The year-wise funds released by Ministry of
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises to KVIC and Mahatma Gandhi Institute for
Rural Industrialisation (MGIRI) during last three years indicates that the
government is increasingly putting more emphasis on the development of the KVI
Sector :-
|
Year
|
Funds (in
` crore) released to KVIC/MGIRI
|
|
KVIC
|
MGIRI
|
Total
|
|
2008-09
|
1104.94
|
3.00
|
1107.94
|
|
2009-10
|
824.06
|
3.00
|
827.06
|
|
2010-11
|
1444.16
|
5.85
|
1458.31
|
|
2011-12
(Target)
|
1581.00
|
10.00
|
1591.00
|
STATE-WISE NUMBER OF KHADI INSTITUTIONS
AND REGP/PMEGP UNITS
|
Sr.
No.
|
State/UT
|
No.of
Khadi Institutions
|
No.
of REGP units assisted upto
2007-08
|
No.
of PMEGP units assist ed upto July 2011
|
|
1
|
UT Chandigarh
|
0
|
170
|
74
|
|
2
|
Delhi
|
8
|
268
|
214
|
|
3
|
Haryana
|
86
|
9522
|
2218
|
|
4
|
Himachal Pradesh
|
13
|
4994
|
1806
|
|
5
|
Jammu & Kashmir
|
32
|
13673
|
4736
|
|
6
|
Punjab
|
19
|
13554
|
2310
|
|
7
|
Rajasthan
|
151
|
34064
|
4812
|
|
8
|
A
& N Islands
|
0
|
1244
|
319
|
|
9
|
Bihar
|
82
|
3568
|
8746
|
|
10
|
Jharkhand
|
23
|
1735
|
3128
|
|
11
|
Orissa
|
28
|
6769
|
6951
|
|
12
|
West Bengal
|
277
|
31509
|
18855
|
|
13
|
Arunachal Pradesh
|
1
|
772
|
503
|
|
14
|
Assam
|
19
|
10253
|
8736
|
|
15
|
Manipur
|
12
|
1121
|
474
|
|
16
|
Meghalaya
|
1
|
4073
|
903
|
|
17
|
Mizoram
|
1
|
3715
|
536
|
|
18
|
Nagaland
|
2
|
5875
|
301
|
|
19
|
Tripura
|
0
|
1792
|
988
|
|
20
|
Sikkim
|
0
|
624
|
148
|
|
21
|
Andhra Pradesh
|
95
|
22354
|
7335
|
|
22
|
Karnataka
|
166
|
19324
|
4786
|
|
23
|
Kerala
|
40
|
12868
|
4175
|
|
24
|
Lakshadweep
|
0
|
42
|
36
|
|
25
|
Pondicherry
|
0
|
1556
|
355
|
|
26
|
Tamilnadu
|
53
|
10962
|
7420
|
|
27
|
Goa
|
0
|
2807
|
196
|
|
28
|
Gujarat
|
232
|
2938
|
3281
|
|
29
|
Maharashtra
|
103
|
29619
|
9600
|
|
30
|
Chattisgarh
|
19
|
4311
|
2905
|
|
31
|
Madhya Pradesh
|
48
|
22887
|
4057
|
|
32
|
Uttarakhand
|
37
|
4376
|
2299
|
|
33
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
517
|
23390
|
12822
|
|
|
Total
|
2065
|
306729
|
126025
|
RTS/VN