Khadi Products

Various steps are being planned by the state government to give a boost to the sale of handloom, handicrafts and khadi products.

With Gandhi Jayanti around the corner, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the people to buy Khadi products to mark "Bapu's Jayanti with great fervour".Addressing the 81st episode of his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat', PM Modi remembered the contribution of Gandhi to the cleanliness movement and said "Mahatma Gandhi had associated cleanliness with the dream of independence"."Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi) was a proponent of cleanliness, he made cleanliness a mass movement and associated it with the dream of independence," he said.He said the youth of today must know that how the cleanliness campaign had given constant energy to the freedom movement. "Today, after so many decades, the cleanliness movement has once again worked to connect the country with the dream of a new India," he said.The Prime Minister pointed out that if we look at the life of Mahatma Gandhi, then we realise how important small things were in his life and how he had realised big resolutions by taking ...

The products range from apparel, grocery, cosmetics, home décor, health and wellness products, essentials and gifts

After PM Narendra Modi's promotion of Khadi products in his 'Mann ki Baat' program, masks became the best-selling Khadi product followed by fabric, followed by honey, groceries, and handkerchiefs

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The Khadi and Village Industries Commission said it had forced e-commerce portals Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal and others to remove over 160 web links selling products under the brand name of 'Khadi'

The masks being sold by the woman also had logos of khadi and the central government's 'Make in India' and 'Vocal for Local' initiatives, besides the prime minister's photograph

MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari outlined the broad plan which includes a concerted push to maximize the production and sale of khadi and make it a global brand

The move may throw a spanner in the works of companies, especially foreign firms that are trying to register khadi as a trademark

People generally perceive Khadi as not fashionable and something worn by the older generation

PM Modi urged people to stop exchanging bouquets and instead gift objects made of 'khadi'

Peter England will develop an exclusive product line branded as Khadi by Peter England