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In the pre-independence days of India, the British rulers ruined the indigenous industries. Muslin and silk industries were not exception to this.
Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Nation, launched his famous Non-co-operation- Movement in 1921 as a part of the Freedom Movement of the country. He stressed the importance of the production of indigenous goods and the boycott of foreign goods as well and launched his 18 points constructive programmers’ that included the “ Khadi & Gramodyog Industry “ as a major one.
The Saha brothers of Chak Islampur( Dt. Murshidabad, West Bengal), i.e. Chandrakanta and Lalitmohan Saha had business in Silk from long past. They made a contact with respected Gandhiji through many renowned personalities of the country to draw his attention to the importance of silk industry in the economy of country and insisted him to include it into his ‘Khadi’ program me. But , at first Gundhiji was not agreed to include it into Khadi since it was not free from violence. On through investigation and being satisfied that it is free from violence and a good number of rural spinners and weavers were engaged into it he accepted it as a Khadi Industry in 1925.
Sri Lalitmohan Saha founded this samity on 19.07.1954 last under the Society Registration Act, 1961 of the Govt. of West Bengal, bearing the Registration no. 21751/191. It obtained the Khadi Certificate no. BGL/225 on 8th May,1955 from the Akhil Bharat Khadi & V.I. Board. Afterwards, in the year 1966 when the Khadi and Village Industries Commission was founded in accordance to the Special Act of the Govt. of India, this Samity was included under the fold of the KVIC. Since then the Samity has been running its multifarious activities both Khadi and Village Industries.
Late Lalitmohan Saha was the founder Secretary and Late Kalicharan Sharma a lifelong devotee in revival of Muslin, was the founder President of the samity. After the demise of Lalitmohan Saha in 1964 Sri Nanda Kumar Chowdhury shouldered the responsibility as Secretary to run the flagship of the Khadi program me of the samity to its great esteem.
Due to his tireless efforts the samity was able to gain the glorious position as the best functioning khadi institution in India, in 1999. On 26th March, 2006 he relinquished his responsibility as the Secretary as the Secretary and Sri Pranab Kumar Chowdhury a general Member of the samity was elected as the Secretary of the samity who continued his responsibility till 17th December, 2010. Because of his physical and mental ground he resigned from his responsibility of the Secretary on that date. Sri Nityananda Chowdhury one of the General member of the samity was elected as the new Secretary and till now he is the Secretary of the samity.
The samity has been running for 58 years through many ups and downs whose main objects are to generate the employments among the rural artisans on uplifting their Social, economic and moral in the spirit of co-operation.
It has three phases of the administration-system :
1.) Advisory Committee
2.) General Body
3.) Executive committee
Besides, in order to run its day to day activity it has several sub-committees like
i) Central purchase, processing and payment conduct sub committee
ii) Management Review Committee
iii) Workers Efficiency Evaluation Standing Sub Committee
iv) Construction and Repairing sub committee.
Spread Over Its Activities :
At present in 260 villages under 70 blocks of 12 districts of West Bengal, multifarious activities are going on through 20 centre’s, sub centre’s and Bhanders and about 5000 families are depended directly or indirectly upon this society.
Bank- Finance :
It has taken the bank finance up to the ceiling limit of Rs. 1.50 crores from the Bank of Boroda, Berhampore Branch, P.O. Khagra, Dist. Murshidabad (W.B.) as per norms of the KVIC against their Interest Subsidy scheme.
Progress of Production and Sales performance Silk , Muslin, Cotton Khadi & Others of last 3 years:
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| A. |
Production [Rs. In Lakh ] |
| Particulars |
2008-09 |
2009-10 |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
| Silk Khadi |
428.16 |
521.14 |
486.77 |
589.98 |
| Muslin Khadi |
164.34 |
155.26 |
105.72 |
120.26 |
| Cotton Khadi |
67.73 |
80.87 |
85.30 |
103.23 |
| Others (Polyvastra & V.I.) |
0.13 |
0.17 |
0.10 |
0.16 |
| Total |
660.36 |
757.44 |
677.89 |
813.63 |
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| B. |
Sales (Whole sale) [Rs. In Lakh ] |
| Particulars |
2008-09 |
2009-10 |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
| Silk Khadi |
201.14 |
171.70 |
165.91 |
242.77 |
| Muslin Khadi |
115.26 |
112.51 |
105.42 |
123.71 |
| Cotton Khadi |
54.70 |
46.92 |
56.47 |
77.15 |
| Others (Polyvastra & V.I.) |
0.14 |
0.10 |
0.49 |
0.15 |
| Total |
371.24 |
331.23 |
328.29 |
443.78 |
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| C. |
Sales (Retail sale) [Rs. In Lakh ] |
| Particulars |
2008-09 |
2009-10 |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
| Silk Khadi |
409.39 |
540.73 |
548.07 |
584.50 |
| Muslin Khadi |
20.60 |
22.24 |
22.64 |
25.79 |
| Cotton Khadi |
73.65 |
80.92 |
85.05 |
98.14 |
| Others (Polyvastra & V.I.) |
9.88 |
12.10 |
12.16 |
12.45 |
| Total |
513.52 |
655.99 |
667.92 |
720.88 |
| Grand Total ( B + C) |
884.76 |
987.22 |
996.21 |
1164.66 |
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| Employment & Earnings |
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Nos |
Earnings Rs.
In lakhs |
Nos |
Earnings Rs.
In lakhs |
Nos |
Earnings Rs.
In lakhs |
Nos |
Earnings Rs.
In lakhs |
| Artisans (Weavers & Spinners) |
2966 |
299.36 |
2884 |
345.85 |
2609 |
315.63 |
2887 |
329.48 |
| Staff (Salaried Workers) |
105 |
61.33 |
100 |
69.52 |
100 |
76.97 |
100 |
67.12 |
| Total |
3071 |
360.69 |
2984 |
415.37 |
2709 |
392.60 |
2987 |
396.60 |
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| A Profile on Progress of Production and Employments since the inception of the society |
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| Year |
Production (Rs. In lakhs) |
Employments |
| Nos. |
Earning (Rs. In lakhs) |
| 1955 – 1956 |
1.27 L. |
250 |
0.30 L. |
| 1964 – 1965 |
8.51 L. |
1715 |
2.66 L. |
| 1970 – 1971 |
22.67 L. |
2627 |
9.20 L. |
| 1986 – 1987 |
157.00 L.; |
4004 |
55.37 L. |
| 1996 – 1997 (Double employment program me) |
604.40 L. |
5329 |
241.09 L. |
| 2001 – 2002 |
367.31 L. |
3228 |
209.73 L. |
| 2005 – 2006 |
484.29 L. |
3274 |
237.68 L. |
| 2007 – 2008 |
631.23 L. |
3362 |
343.30 L. |
| 2008 – 2009 |
660.36 L. |
3071 |
395.65 L. |
| 2009 – 2010 |
757.44 L. |
2984 |
415.37 L. |
| 2010 – 2011 |
677.89 L. |
2709 |
373.64 L. |
| 2011 - 2012 |
813.47 L. |
2,987 |
396.60 L. |
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Efforts for Quality control and Development :
Registered with Silk Mark Organization.
Granted Lenience for ISO 9001 – 2008 Quality Management System by BIS, Govt. of India.
Introduced In House Testing Laboratory under KVI Scheme.
New Initiatives Under Kvi Programme
A project under Ready to Use Mission in Khadi program me taken in collaboration with the NEFT in the year 2005 , which was inaugurated by His Excellency Sri Gopal Krishna Gandhi the then Governor of West Bengal. The products have created an exclusive demand in the Fashion era for young generation with the furtherance of wholesales and retail sales both with the incensement of the employments potentiality naturally.
Artisans Welfare Fund & A.W.F. Trust :
As per norms of the KVIC the samity has deposited Rs. 253.38 lakhs in total to the Artisan welfare Fund & Pension Trust up to 31.03.12(Up to 3rd Qtr)
Janashree Arogya Bima Yojana :
The samity has taken the Janashree Arogya Bima Yojana and covered total 2992 nos. of artisans to secure the future lives of the artisans.
Social Activities :
Society feels its duty to take part in different social activities other than its production and sales activities. Two children education centre’s one Creech unit and one Adult Education Centre are running regularly under this samity.
Some Glorious & Memorable Events Of The Samity :
1. Through its constant efforts it produces up to 600 counts very fine muslin yarn & weaving up to 500 counts which create a great unique achievement of the world textile industry. Sri Nawal Kishore Sharma, the then Chairman of the KVIC while visiting our samity on 17th Sept,1995 became spell bound and expressed his admiration for the unparallel success of the samity in spinning the 600 counts of muslin yarn in an effective manner.
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In the year 1995 on 5th May Sri Pronab Kumar Mukherjee the then Foreign Minister of the Govt. of India, awarded a sum of Rs. 75,000/- in favour of our Samity for the marvelous and glorious achievement of the samity in the Muslin industry and also 2 spinners and one weaver of the samity being acclaimed by the then Foreign Minister of the Govt. of India & they received Rs.3,000/- each from his hand.
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Awarded as a good functioning khadi institution in the country by the then Chairman, KVIC in the year 1999 in New Delhi.
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On 7th oct, 2006 the samity has been conferred the National Award, 2006 for its Excellency in khadi activities by the Ministry of A.R.I.Govt.org. India, at Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi by respected Sri Pranab Mukherjee, the then Hon’ble Defence Minister Govt. of India.
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Again the samity has been conferred the National Award, 2011 for the best PRODIP on 2nd Sept, 2011 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi by Sri Birbhadra Singh, Hon’ble Cabinet Minister, MSME, Govt.of India.
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In the year 2005-06 one skilled Muslin spinner of the samity namely Kumary Jyotsna Saha received the prestigious National Award on 28th oct, 2005 at Asoka Hotel, New Delhi, for her skinless in fine muslin spinning of 500 counts from the pious hands of the then Hon’ble President of India Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.
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Sri Srikanta Nandi, the skilful muslin weaver has been awarded the Certificate of Merit for his weaving of fine muslin of 500 counts and cash Rs.11,000/- at the Khadi Sabha at Adampur Doaba, Punjab. Smt. Rinku Hazra a muslin spinner of Berhampore Amber Centre of the samity, has been awarded with honor of Rs. 10,000/- cash and the certificate for her 500 counts muslin spinning at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi at the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the KVIC.
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On the auspicious occasion of celebration of 59th Republic Day, on behalf of the Govt., a felicitation was given to the eminent renowned acclaimed Khadi worker, Sri Nanda Kumar Chowdhury, architect of the samity,at the District Magistrate Bang low, Berhampore , Murshidabad on 26th January, 2008.
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