KVIC to help create entrepreneurship focusing wood-craft, agarbatti making and agro and food-based industries

Guwahati, May 17 (KNN) Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena distributed 50 Agarbatti making machines in Guwahati, Assam to enable women artisans establish their own Agarbatti manufacturing units under the flagship Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Program (PMEGP).

It aims to boost the local Agarbatti industry which is a key employment generator in Assam.

“KVIC’s support to turn wood craft, Agarbatti making and agro and food-based industries like pickle making will empower the local youths and women and create employment at their doorsteps,” he said.

Saxena also distributed turn wood craft machines to 50 artisans in Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh and and 50 pickle making machines to the artisans at Guwahati in Assam. 

As many as 150 trained Khadi artisans including 100 women artisans in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh are associated with various self-employment activities of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).  (KNN Bureau)