NEW DELHI: Khadi has become a means of transformation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today while highlighting that the sales of khadi products had recorded a 90 per cent increase during this Diwali season.
In his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’, he said khadi has transformed the lives of the poor and is emerging as a powerful means of empowering them.
The sale of khadi and handloom witnessed 90 per cent increase during this Diwali against the previous year’s figure, the Prime Minister said.
He said that khadi sale at just one outlet in Delhi on the last ‘Dhanteras’ festival on October 17 was a record Rs 1.2 crore.
“Earlier, it was ‘khadi for nation’ and we talked about ‘khadi for fashion’. But lately we realised that ‘khadi for transformation’ is taking the place of ‘khadi for nation’ and ‘khadi for fashion’,” he said.
“The ‘Mann Ki Baat’ (programme) is praised and sometimes it is criticised. But when I see the impact of ‘Mann Ki Baat’, my belief becomes a conviction that the programme has forged an unbreakable bonding with the people,” Modi said. (AGENCIES)
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