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The share of Khadi fabric in the total textile mill production has doubled to 8.49 per cent in five years to 2018-19, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission said Tuesday.

While the mill fabric production was 2,486 million square metres in the 2014-15 fiscal, the production of Khadi was 105.38 million square metres – showing a share of 4.23 per cent of the overall textiles production.

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HGH India 2018, the annual trade show for Home Textiles, Home Décor, Gifts & Houseware in India is back with its 7th edition. The three day exposition was inaugurated by Dr. Kavita Gupta, IAS Textile Commissioner, Govt of India.

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The Government has made another move post demonetization.They have made it mandatory for all textile units across the value chain, except handloom, khadi and jute, will have to register online and provide data on production.

While the registration will be one-time, production details should be shared by the units every month. Units can do this online from their premises or make use of the infrastructure available at the Regional Offices of the Textile Commissioner or powerloom service centres.

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The Indian textile industry, which caters to clothing need which has an estimated market size of $108 billion is divided into two broad segments within the industry, namely the traditional hand-woven and hand-spun textile segment, and the modernized mill. Khadi is defined as any cloth woven on handlooms and hand-spun from cotton, woolen or silk yarns in India or the combination of two or all of these yarns, as per the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act 1956.

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Indian designers working to give the country's weaves a new context and a new avatar which will help to go a long way to help the craft in reaching out to a whole new audience. This will change the perception of Indian textiles, said Payal Khandwala, who is known for her handwoven silk, khadi, cotton and linen.

Khandwala on the sidelines of Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Winter/Festive 2016 where she showcased her bridal line in association with Lakme Salon said that this, in turn, will support artisans that survive in dismal living conditions and have very poor wages.

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A three day textile and sari exhibition called Kairi 2016 is hosted by Delhi Crafts in the Capital for desi dressers who are looking for traditional weaves at affordable prices.

The exhibition will offer a variety of time-honoured weaving styles and patterns, including tie & dye, khadi, ajrak, bagru, dabu prints, laheriya, bandhani, kalamkari, banaras weaves, ikat, kota, maheshwari, chanderi, bagh prints, tribal weaves from Bastar, and weaves from South India among others. The price range of the yardage starts at about Rs 200 per meter, while saris start from Rs1,500.

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Khadi to soon become the zero-carbon footprint green fabric of India and a "zeroeffect, zero-defect" global product as Narendra Modi government decides to make use of solar energy to power "charkhas" (spinning wheels) across the country to enable handspun khadi.

Minister of State for Micro, Small and MEDIUM Enterprises (MSME) Giriraj Singh has received the Prime Minister's go-ahead for the project and the field trial of the 'solar charkhas' has already begun on a pilot basis in the Khanwa village of Nawada district in Bihar.

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Designer Gaurang Shah the LFW winter-festive 2015, showcased his collection titled “Samyukta” inspired by the love story between Prithviraj Chauhan and the strong willed queen Samyukta and an interesting historical textile story.

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People have been allured towards Khadi after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's clarion call last October to adopt the fabric. A year-on-year comparison of the April-June quarter shows that retails sales of Khadi has increased by 30.37 percent.

Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Minister Kalraj Mishra at the launch for an exclusive exhibition cum sales of products from Jammu & Kashmir and Khadi T Shirts said that Khadi sales have doubled. They want the supply to match the rising demand for which they are looking for ways to increase Khadi production.

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All India Handloom Exp organized jointly by Maharashtra Textile Corporation, Indrayani and the National Handloom Corpn and Weavers Associations of various states has been arranged at Nagpur. This is the fourth time this exhibition is held at Nagpur since Nagpurians always give it a very good response. It has been held in Mumbai, Pune, Aurangabad and Nasik too but Nagpur is their favourite venue. This year fifty four artisans from all over the country are participating in the event.