Prime Minister Narendra Modi during “Khadi Utsav” in August 2022. File | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged students to promote khadi as a fashion statement in colleges and universities, which could emerge as hubs for the ‘Vocal for Local’ movement. Addressing about 3,000 students from various colleges and universities here … Read more
Khadi. Representational image Amid COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, Khadi activities got a major push with a huge purchase order worth Rs 48.90 crore from the Indian Railways. The railways purchased Khadi goods worth Rs 8.48 crore in December 2020 alone, substantially creating employment and income for Khadi artisans during the testing times of Covid-19, the … Read more
New Delhi: Fighting hard to ‘protect’ its brand name from rampant misrepresentation, government owned ‘Khadi India’ has shot off legal notices to over a thousand firms and has now got hundreds of web links selling ‘khadi’ products across e-commerce platforms pulled off. Amazon, Flipkart, and Snapdeal among others have taken down over 160 such web … Read more