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Promotion of Khadi will encourage Cultural Development: MSME Minister

Updated: Jul 09, 2015 05:10:04pm
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Meerut, July 9 (KNN) Union MSME Minister Kalraj Mishra today inaugurated the ‘Karigar Nela’ under the PEMGP in which more than 1500 exhibitors from UP, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, MP and Chhattisgarh participated.
 
The minister visited the stalls of the exhibitors and spoke to them about their experiences.
 
He later visited Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Sabhaghar and Chaudhury Charan Singh university.
On the micro-blogging site twitter, Mishra wrote that under the KVIC’s khadi programme, 11.27 lakh workers got employment.
Under the Khadi programme, he said, Artisan Welfare Fund Trust was launched for the workers in the sector.
 
He also tweeted that Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) aims to provide employment to 4.23 lakh people by 2015-16.
 
While addressing the sammelan, he said, “All the plans will be planned in a manner so that our institutions could earn maximum profit.”
Promotion of Khadi will encourage Cultural Development, he added.
 
He said that the ministry will make all efforts to conduct more and more exhibitions and also encourage more sectors to participate in it. (KNN Bureau)
 

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