MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF MICRO,SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SHRI MAHABIR PRASAD)
(a) &(b): No, Sir. However, Khadi and Village Industries
Commission (KVIC) continues its sales promotion endeavour for
village industry products under its ambit through its
departmentally run 12 sales outlets and by conducting
exhibitions/fairs. It provides financial assistance for
organizing District/State/Zonal and National level exhibitions,
besides financing special exhibitions/events being organized on
various special occasions. During 2006-07, 106 such exhibitions
were organized in various parts of the country. The pattern of
financial assistance for organizing exhibitions is given below:
Type of Exhibitions Maximum financial assistance provided per exhibition (Rs. lakh)
National level Exhibitions 40.00
Zonal level Exhibitions 25.00
State Level Exhibitions 10.00
District level Exhibitions 2.50
Details of the exhibitions organized as well as sales
generated during 2006-07 are as under:
Nature of Exhibitions Number of Exhibitions Sales (Rs. lakh)
National level Exhibitions 3 1,274.93
State level Exhibitions 18 1,770.68
District level Exhibitions 80 1,521.10
Special Exhibitions/Events 5 48.31
Total 106 4,615.02
(c): No, Sir. Subsidy is not given on village industry products
promoted by KVIC.
(d): Does not arise.
(e) and (f): No, Sir. However, to strengthen the khadi and
village industries (KVI) and to make them competitive in the
global economy, Government (in the Ministry of Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises) has been implementing schemes like Interest
Subsidy Eligibility Certificate Scheme (ISEC) providing subsidised
rates of interest on bank loans, Product Development, Design
Intervention and Packaging (PRODIP) Scheme for improving designs
and packaging of KVI products, and Rural Employment Generation
Programme (REGP) through KVIC for setting up village industries by
providing subsidy in the form of margin money. Assistance is also
provided to KVI units to participate in exhibitions at the
national, sub-national levels to assist marketing of KVI products.
These facilities are available to all eligible cottage and rural
industries. Further, the Government has launched the Scheme of
Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) in 34
khadi, 62 village and 26 coir industry clusters for five years
beginning 2005-06. SFURTI envisages assistance for setting up of
common facility centres, quality improvement, training and
capacity building, development of new products, improved
packaging, new design, market promotion, etc.
