A State of the art Khadi exhibition displaying the exquisite handcrafted products from 20 Indian States was inaugurated in Varanasi on Sunday. Hon’ble Minister of State for MSME, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, inaugurated the exhibition in presence of Chairman KVIC Vinai Kumar Saxena and local MLAs at Rudrakhsh International Convention Centre in Varanasi.
On Sunday, KVIC also organized a “Khadi Kareegar Sammelan” (Khadi artisans’ conference) that was attended by over 2,000 Khadi artisans, mostly women, from Varanasi and 12 adjoining districts like Prayagraj, Jaunpur, Mirzapur, Ghazipur, Sonbhadra, etc.
A total of 105 stalls have been set up by Khadi Institutions from States like Uttar Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Leh-Ladakh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Bihar, West Bengal and others. A number of Khadi institutions, PMEGP units and several SFURTI clusters from various States have also set up their stalls.
A range of exquisite Khadi products including the premium High Altitude Honey from Jammu & Kashmir, a wide variety of Kashmiri and Rajasthani woolen shawls, Muslin fabric from West Bengal, a variety of silk fabric from West Bengal and Bihar, Koti Shawls from Punjab, leather products from Kanpur, terracotta pottery from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, the widely acclaimed hand-knotted carpets of Mirzapur and Prayagraj are the biggest attractions in the exhibition. This is the second such exhibition organized by KVIC in Varanasi since the Covid-19 lockdown.