Khadi Prakritik Paint to boost rural economic system, arrest exodus of rural population to cities: Gadkari
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The “Khadi Prakritik Paint” is a first-of-its-kind product based mostly on cow dung as its most important ingredient
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday stated initiatives similar to “Khadi Prakritik Paint” will strengthen the rural economic system and has the potential to develop into a ₹6,000-crore trade quickly.
Launching the eco-friendly and non-toxic paint with antibacterial properties by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Minister Gadkari stated, initiatives similar to KVIC paint may lead to ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ and arrest the exodus of rural population in direction of cities.
At the identical time, it’s going to strengthen the rural economic system and defend cows, he stated.
The “Khadi Prakritik Paint” is a first-of-its-kind product based mostly on cow dung as its most important ingredient. It is cost-effective in addition to odourless and has been licensed by the Bureau of Indian Standards.
“Khadi Prakritik Paint will be a ₹6,000 crore industry after branding… The paint is better than the best available paint available in the market and is priced at ₹225 a litre as compared to paints by various brands which are ₹550 a litre,” Mr. Gadkari stated through the launch.
On MSMEs, he stated the concept was to take its contribution to GDP to 50% from the present 30% and boost exports to 60%, from 48%.
“The plan is also to take KVIC’s turnover to ₹5 lakh crore in the next five years, from ₹80,000 crore at present,” he stated.
The Minister stated with cow dung as the primary ingredient behind this paint, cows will develop into a supply of earnings even when they’re non-milching cows.
“No villager will like to send cows to butchers… No cow will go to butchers, not by law but due to economy,” he stated and added that this initiative will strengthen agriculture, rural and tribal economic system, moreover 115 aspirational districts the place GDP development is negligible.
Khadi Prakritik Paint is offered in two varieties — distemper paint and plastic emulsion paint. Production of Khadi Prakritik Paint is aligned with the Prime Minister’s imaginative and prescient of growing farmers’ earnings.
The paint, with antifungal and antibacterial properties, is free from heavy metals like lead, mercury, chromium, arsenic, cadmium and others. It is predicted to boost native manufacturing and create sustainable native employment by way of know-how switch.
This will boost socially, economically and educationally backward space’s growth and arrest migration of rural populace to metropolises like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, and Kolkata, he stated.
Mr. Gadkari stated the MSMEs Ministry will help clinics in villages for manufacturing of indigenous cows by way of superior scientific strategies and plans to fund 10,000 such clinics pan India moreover switch of paint know-how for native manufacturing of paints.
“This technology will increase the consumption of cow dung as a raw material for eco-friendly products and will generate additional revenue to farmers and gaushalas. This is estimated to generate additional income of ₹30,000 (approx) per annum per animal to farmers/gaushalas,” MSMEs Ministry has stated in an announcement on Monday.
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