To fulfil Hon’ble Prime Minister's dream of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, Chairman, Khadi and Village Industries Commission Shri Manoj Kumar, makes a four- day visit to Karnataka from 18th to 21st January 2023. During his maiden visit in this region, he distributed 300 Bee-Boxes including equipment and bee colonies under the Honey Mission program implemented by KVIC on the first day and inaugurated the Electric Potter's Wheel training program for skill upgradation of people engaged in potter's work under Gramodyog Vikas Yojana, in which about 40 trainees are participating at Malavalli.

 

Addressing the participants on this occasion, Shri Manoj Kumar, Chairman opined that KVIC is playing crucial role in generating employment opportunities for youth, especially women in villages, and hilly-border areas through its various schemes and programmes in the endeavour of fulfilling the vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's 'Self-reliant India'.  This is also adding up to self-reliance in lakhs of spinner through spinning on charkhas with self-respect at their doorsteps and meeting the daily needs of their family.

Chairman KVIC also reiterated that KVIC through its diverse efforts contributing to create additional employment opportunities in the country, so that more and more money reaches the hands of artisans. This will not only make them economically independent but the fruits of the benefits will reach to the people sitting at the last ladder of the society.  He said that, distribution of bee-boxes, machines and bee colony to the beneficiaries trained in beekeeping will also develop new means of employment and become a source of income of needy people of the society.

He also stressed on the vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, to make the youth of the country self-reliant by starting small and medium enterprise and become a 'job provider' instead of a job seeker.

He expressed his gratitude towards Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for re-popularizing Khadi, said that our illustrious Prime Minister has done the work of reviving Khadi and taking 'Khadi India' to new heights on the motto of 'Khadi for Nation, Khadi for Fashion and Khadi for Transformation'.

Shri Manoj Kumar shared details of setting up enterprises through PMEGP units in the country. In order to promote manufacturing enterprises, the maximum cost for setting up a unit under the manufacturing sector has also been increased by Government of India from Rs. 25 lakhs to Rs. 50 lakhs, this will encourage setting up new enterprises under the PMEGP scheme, he added.

It is noteworthy that in areas like Malavalli and other parts of the Country, Project RE-HAB have been implemented and beehives have been placed on regular routes of elephants, so that it acts as floodgates and prevents human deaths due to elephant attacks. This has given successful results. 

 He added that KVIC has distributed 800 bee-boxes, equipment and bee colonies to 80 beekeepers under the “Honey Mission” program in the state of Karnataka during the last financial year. In addition to that, the KVIC also distributed 100 electric wheels to potters under "Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana" and 201 tool kits to trained tannery-artisans under Leather Industry Programme. Under the PMEGP scheme, 5864 units have been set up, through which employment opportunities were provided to 46,912 people and disbursement of about Rs 157.74 crore subsidy.

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