Cobweb to Silk: KVIC revives Silk reeling centre in Assam’s radicalised area
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has revived an old Khadi workshed razed by insurgents in 1989 in Baska districts of Assam.
In a bid to forge life into the traditional weaving culture of Assam and get the spinning wheel on the move again, KVIC has restructured the workshed that was first established by a Khadi institution called Tamulpur Anchalik Gramdan Sangh and was later shifted to Assam from Arunachal Pradesh following the Chinese aggression in 1962.
According to the official statement released by KVIC, the Khadi workshed at village Kawali in Baksa district of Assam, which was burnt down by insurgents in 1989, has now been upgraded to a Silk reeling center and Spinning and weaving activities will restart at the workshed with 15 women artisans and 5 other staff in the second week of February.
“The revival of this Khadi workshed assumed to have a historical significance and that resumption of Khadi activities would create employment for the locals. To begin with, KVIC will develop this unit for reeling of the elegant Eri Silk of Assam. Other Khadi activities like manufacturing of village industry products will also be started in future,” informed KVIC Chairman Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena.
Revamped with the financial assistance from KVIC, Khadi workshed is located 90 km from Guwahati. Apart from this KVIC hauas revived several such Khadi institutions in states like Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Assam, Odisha and Tamil Nadu that have been in ill state of repair for decades, The objective behind the workshed scheme is to provide better working conditions to the Khadi artisans that will ultimately improve their productivity.
