About Khadi and Village Industries Commission:
- It is a statutory body established under the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act of 1956.
- Nodal Ministry: It is an apex organization under the Ministry of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises.
- It is charged with the planning, promotion, organisation and implementation of programmes for the development of Khadi and other village industries in rural areas.
- At the state level, Khadi & Village Industries Boards were set up to effectively implement the schemes of KVIC in their respective states.
- The objectives of the KVIC are:
- Social Objective: To provide employment in rural areas
- Economic Objective: To produce a saleable product
- Wider Objective: To create self-reliance among the economically weaker section
- Functions of the KVIC:
- To build a strategic reserve of raw materials and implements for supply to producers.
- To create common service facilities for processing raw materials as semi-finished goods and provisions for facilities for marketing KVI products.
- To enhance the sale and marketing of Khadi and other products of village industries or handicrafts.
- To be responsible for encouraging and promoting research in the production techniques.
- To assure the genuineness of the products and to set standards for the quality of products from Khadi and Village Industries.
