ANNUAL REPORT - Dc Msme

More than 2.70 lakh khadi artisans
have already been covered under
this Scheme so far.
5.9.11 Exhibitions:
Besides promoting sale
of products of khadi and village
industries through its network of
Khadi Gramodyog Bhavans (KGB)
and Retail Sales Outlets, KVIC also
organises a number of exhibitions,
in different parts of the country. 38
exhibitions/events were organised in
various parts of the country in 2009-
10. During 2010-11, 30 exhibitions/
events have already been organized
till 31 December 2010.
1.1.12 KVIC as deemed Export
Promotion Council:
KVIC has been granted the
status of ‘deemed’ Export Promotion
Council (EPC) by the Department of
Commerce for availing assistance
on the pattern of an umbrella EPC
like Federation of Indian Export
Organisations (FIEO), participation
in international exhibitions/
fairs, organization of buyer-seller
meets, etc. The assistance is as
per admissibility under Market
MSME
Chapter -V KVIC
Development Assistance (MDA)/
Market Access Initiative (MAI)
guidelines of the Department of
Commerce. 880 units have since
been registered with KVIC.
5.9.13 Quality Control and Brand
Promotion:
KVIC has made arrangements
with the National Institute of Design
(NID), Ahmedabad; ‘Dastakar’,
Andhra Pradesh; IIT, Delhi and
Textiles Committee, Mumbai for
promotion of ‘Khadi’ as a brand. The
Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) signed between KVIC and
the Textiles Committee, a statutory
body under the Ministry of Textiles
continued during 2010-11. Under
the MoU, facilities of 13 laboratories
situated across the country are
being used by KVIC for testing the
quality of khadi and polyvastra so
as to provide a fillip and thus further
increase the marketability of their
products. Khadi institutions avail
the benefit of this arrangement and
cloth samples were tested on cost
sharing basis (75 per cent of the
testing charges being borne by the
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2010-11