India, March 27 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The Mahatma Gandhi Gram Swaraj Initiative (MGGSI) is an umbrella framework which proposes to build rural self-reliance in khadi, handloom and handicrafts. It strengthens rural enterprises by streamlining training and skilling support towards improvement in quality of process and production for achieving global market linkage and branding.
This initiative shall benefit weavers, village industries, and rural youth by fostering employment-oriented growth through the development of rural enterprises into scalable, export-oriented units. It aims to create vital backward and forward linkages across the value chains of khadi, handloom, and handicrafts-including local sourcing-that ...