{"id":18949,"date":"2026-10-11T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18949"},"modified":"2026-10-11T13:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:05:39","slug":"kvic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kvic\/","title":{"rendered":"Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khadi and Village Industries (KVI) commission has continued to play a significant role in promoting rural livelihoods, generating employment and strengthening the vision of an Atmanirbhar Bharat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Khadi and Village Industries Commission<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>statutory body<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> established under the <\/span><b>Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act of 1956.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Nodal Ministry:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is an apex organization under the <\/span><b>Ministry of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/msme\/\" target=\"_blank\">Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is charged with the <\/span><b>planning, promotion, organisation and implementation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of programmes for the development of Khadi and other village industries in rural areas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Organisation Structure:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> At the state level, Khadi &amp; Village Industries Boards were set up to effectively implement the schemes of KVIC in their respective states.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Objectives of the KVIC are<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Social Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To provide employment in rural areas<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Economic Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To produce a saleable product<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Wider Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To create self-reliance among the economically weaker section.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Functions of the KVIC<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Strategic Reserve:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To build a strategic reserve of raw materials and implements for supply to producers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Processing:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To create common service facilities for processing raw materials as semi-finished goods and provisions for facilities for marketing KVI products.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Marketing:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To enhance the sale and marketing of Khadi and other products of village industries or handicrafts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Research:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To be responsible for encouraging and promoting research in the production techniques.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Standards:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To assure the genuineness of the products and to set standards for the quality of products from Khadi and Village Industries.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?PRID=2321195&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khadi and Village Industries Commission is a statutory body established under the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act of 1956.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":105336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[222,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-18949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-khadi-and-village-industries-commission-kvic","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18949"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128496,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949\/revisions\/128496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}