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Skill of hands,
together with
AI
Handloom
products take off
on a new flight
trajectory
are also engaged in making new employment opportunities.
handloom products popular. I Mostly, women are associated
am also happy to see that many with this industry, so they are
people are engaged in making the ones who are benefiting
the local products of their place the most. I urge you once more:
popular. You too can upload your you must have many types of
local products on social media clothes, and if you have not
with the hashtag ‘My Product My bought Khadi clothes till now,
Pride’ (#MyProductMyPride). This start this year.
small effort of yours will change The month of August
the lives of many people. is around the corner. This
Friends, along with is the month of attaining
handloom, I would also like to independence; it is the month
talk about Khadi. There must of revolution. What better
be many amongst you all opportunity could there be than
who have never used Khadi this to buy Khadi?
products before, but today you
wear Khadi with great pride. I My dear fellow citizens,
am also happy to tell you that in ‘Mann ki Baat’ I have often
the turnover of Khadi Village discussed with you the
Industry has crossed " 1.5 lakh challenge of the drug menace.
crore for the first time. Just Every family is worried that
imagine one-and-a-half lakh their child might get caught in
crore rupees, and do you know the grip of drugs. Now, to help
how much the sale of Khadi has such people, the government
increased? 400% ! This rising has opened a special centre
sale of Khadi, or handloom, is named – ‘Manas’. This is a very
also creating a large number of big step in the fight against
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