"People Wearing Khadi Were Seen As...": PM Modi Hails Development In Handloom Sector
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PM Modi was speaking at the ninth National Handloom Day at 'Bharat Mandapam' in the Pragati Maidan complex.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that his government was working to revive the domestic textile sector and after 2014, efforts were made to change the mindset that had developed where people looked down on those who donned khadi clothes.
PM Modi was speaking at the ninth National Handloom Day at 'Bharat Mandapam' in the Pragati Maidan complex.
"After independence, much importance was not given to strengthening the cloth industry (Khadi), which was so strong during the last century...the situation was that it was left to die...people who wore Khadi were looked upon with inferiority complex...," PM Modi said.
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