- Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) created yet another record under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

- The turnover of Khadi and Village Industries surpassed Rs. 1 lakh 70 thousand crore for the first time in the history of independent India.

- KVIC Chairman Manoj Kumar released the provisional data for the financial year 2024-25.

- Data shows a four-fold increase (347% ) in production during past 11 years, sales increased fivefold with a jump of 447%.

- Historical increase of 49.23% in the field of total employment generation in 11 years, KVIC is providing employment to 1.94 crore persons.

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has created history with yearly turnover surpassing Rs. 1.70 Lakh Crore in independent India. Once on the verge of dying, The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) performed extremely well and turned around during past 11 years to create yet another history under charismatic leadership and vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to achieve a four-fold jump in production that increased 347 per cent during last 11 years. Similarly, the sales of KVIC during the period under consideration increased some five-fold with a jump of 447 per cent. At the same time, the turnover of Khadi Gramodyog Bhawan New Delhi reached a record figure of Rs. 110.01 crore for the first time.

Manoj Kumar, Chairman, KVIC informed on Monday while releasing the provisional data of Khadi and Village Industries for the financial year 2024-25 at the office located at Rajghat, New Delhi that KVIC has set a record of production, sales and new employment generation in the previous financial year ended on March 31, 2025. In the last 11 years, KVIC has registered an increase of 447 percent in sales, 347 percent in production and 49.23 percent in employment generation. This trend of increase in sales and production was equally evident during the financial year 2023-24, when KVIC registered an increase of 399.69% in sales and 314.79% in production in comparison to the financial year 2013-14.

Notably, the production of Khadi and Village Industry products was Rs. 26,109.07 crore in the financial year 2013-14, which stood nearly four times to Rs. 1,16,599.75 crore in the financial year 2024-25 with a jump of 347 percent. While the sales were Rs. 31,154.19 crore in the financial year 2013-14, it increased nearly five-fold with an unprecedented growth of 447 percent to stand at Rs. 1,70,551.37 crore in the financial year 2024-25, which is the highest sale till date.

Khadi For Viksit Bharat
Kumar added that this excellent performance of KVIC has made a significant contribution towards realizing the resolution of 'Viksit Bharat' by the year 2047 and making India the third largest economy of the world. The dynamic leadership of the Prime Minister added with continued support of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and the tireless hard work of crores of artisans working in the remote villages of the Country have collectively revived Khadi and helped regain its almost lost glory.

According to KVIC Chairman, unprecedented growth has also been observed in the production of Khadi clothes in the last 11 years. While the production of Khadi clothes in terms of value stood at Rs. 811.08 crore in the financial year 2013-14, which jumped exponentially by 366 percent and increased four and a half times in value terms to Rs. 3,783.36 crore in the financial year 2024-25. There has also been a tremendous jump in the sales of Khadi clothes. While its sale was only Rs. 1,081.04 crore in the financial year 2013-14, it increased by about six and a half times to Rs. 7,145.61 crore in the financial year 2024-25 with an increase of 561 percent. The promotion of Khadi by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi from a larger platform has had a huge impact on the sale of Khadi clothes, he reiterated.

Speaking on objective of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission he said that major objective of KVIC is to provide maximum employment opportunities in rural areas. In this area too, KVIC has set a record in the last 11 years. While the cumulative employment was 1.30 crore in the financial year 2013-14, it rose to 1.94 crore in 2024-25 with an increase of 49.23 per cent.

Khadi Bhawan At New Heights

As per the latest released data, there has been an unprecedented increase in the business of Khadi and Village Industries Bhawan, New Delhi. The data shows that while the business of Bhavan was Rs. 51.02 crore in the financial year 2013-14, it increased by almost 2 times and reached Rs 110.01 crore in the financial year 2024-25 with a jump of 115 percent. Since the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Employment Generation Program (PMEGP) scheme, a total of 1018185 units have been established, for which the Government of India has given margin money subsidy of Rs. 27,166.07 crore against a loan of Rs. 73,348.39 crore. As per data, a total of 90,04,541 people are getting employment under PMEGP.

He said that with the aim of providing employment to maximum number of people in rural areas under the Gramodyog Vikas Yojana Scheme, KVIC has more than doubled the budget of Rs 25.65 crore in the financial year 2021-22 by 134 percent to Rs. 60 crore in the financial year 2025-26. So far, 39244 electric pottery wheels, 227049 bee boxes and honey colonies, 2344 automatic and pedal-operated incense stick manufacturing machines, 7735 footwear manufacturing and repairing toolkits, 964 paper plate and dona manufacturing machines, 3494 AC, mobile, sewing, electrician, plumber toolkits, 4555 turnwood, wastewood craft, wooden toy making machines as well as 2367 palm jaggery, oil ghani and tamarind processing machines have been distributed under the Gramodyog Vikas Yojana Scheme. If we talk about the last three financial years, a total of 22284 machines and equipment were distributed in the year 2022-23, 29854 in the financial year 2023-24 and the highest 37218 machines and equipment in the financial year 2024-25. Under Gramodyog Vikas Yojana, KVIC has made a significant contribution in the creation of a self-reliant India by distributing a total of 287752 machines, toolkits and equipment so far.

Speaking on significant contribution towards women empowerment, Kumar further said that in the last 10 years, 7,43,904 persons have been trained through 18 departmental and 17 non-departmental training centres of KVIC, out of ​​which 57.45 percent i.e. 4,27,394 are women. Apart from this, 80 percent of the 5 lakh Khadi artisans are also women. In the last 11 years, the wages of Khadi artisans has been increased by 275 percent while in the last three years, it has been increased by 100 percent.