Activities and Salient Achievements

• Setting up of physical and chemical laboratories
• Development of new technologies
  1. Mercerization machine
  2. Hank dyeing machine
  3. Soft and stiff finish technology
  4. Technology for application of natural dyes
• Technology Dissemination Efforts
  1. Development of Quality Assurance Manual for Khadi (both English & Hindi) after extensive discussion with khadi textile experts and analysis of khadi products and their distribution.
  2. Development of wool / acrylic blends for shawls and transferring technology to Udyog Mandir, Amer, Jaipur. More than thousand shawls have been sold.
  3. Organising twenty one workshops in various parts of the country to disseminate the technologies developed and procedure to be followed for quality assurance.
  4. Setting up of a Model Khadi fabric & garment finishing unit at Kshetriya Shri Gandhi Ashram, Barabanki with a grant of Rs. 12.55 lakh having a capacity for finishing 500-800 garments per day.