Schemes

Under the Special Component Plan, the Board has implemented various schemes, like foot-wear making, cane and bamboo articles making, carpentry and black-smithy works to provide employment to the artisans belonging to Scheduled Castes. So far, 37,317 persons belonging to Scheduled Castes have been benefited.

The Bee-Keeping Industry has benefited the Tribal families. Through Integrated Development Programme, the Board has so far assisted 8397 beneficiaries belonging to Scheduled Tribes.

WELFARE SCHEMES OF THE BOARD COVERED UNDER 15 POINT PROGRAMMES OF THE GOVERNMENT

In the 15 - point programmes of the Government, the Board's areas of activities cover under the following three programmes only : -

The Board provides employment opportunities to the weavers and other rural artisans through production and sale of Khadi varieties and village industries products like Soap, Honey, Handmade Paper, Leather products , etc. The Board will take more effort in this regard.

The Handmade Paper and the allied products like Carry Bags and File Pads manufactured by the Board are mainly by recycling the waste agro materials such as cotton rags, waste paper and other agro-fibres. The Handmade paper is eco-friendly.

The Board through several schemes like Special Component Plan, Integrated Tribal Development Programme, Western Ghats Development Programme, Hill Area Development Programme is providing employment opportunities to publics belonging to Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Tribes / Back-ward Classes and Most Back-ward Classes.

A comprehensive list of activities carried out by the Board is shown below for your use:

Name of the scheme

Area in which the scheme is to be implemented

Officer to whom to be contacted

Beneficiaries

Mode of Assistance

Margin Money Scheme

All

the Districts

Assistant Director of Khadi and Village Industries in each District, Regional Deputy Director of Khadi andVillage Industries, Vellore, Trichirappalli, Madurai and Tiruppur.

The investment celing to setup Village industries by individuals/ firms/ Trusts/ Limited Companies under REGP scheme is Rs.25.00 lakhs

For Projects above Rs.10.00 lakhs and Rs.25.00 lakhs margin money will be payable @25% of Rs.10.00 lakhs + 10% of Rs.15 lakhs the remaining cost of the projects.

However in case of weaker section and women beneficiaries and for hill border /Tribal areas/North east region, A&N Islands, lakshadeep the rate of margin money will continue to be 30% upto 10 lakhs and beyond that 10% of the project cost upto Rs.25.00 lakhs.

	Non Classiffied Areas/Category		Classified Area/Category
I	Total Cost of the Project Rs.10.00 lakhs. Margin Money payable @ 25% = 2.50 lakhs	I	Total Cost of the projects Rs.10.00 lakhs. Margin Money payble @ 30%=Rs.3.00 lakhs
II	Total Cost of no project Rs.15.00 lakhs Margin Money payble =25% of Rs.10.00 lakhs + 10% Rs.5.00 lakhs (Rs.2.50 lakhs) + (Rs.50,000.00) = Rs.3.00 lakhs	II	Total Cost of the project Rs.15.00 lakhs Margin Money payble =30% of Rs.10.00 lakhs + 10% of Rs.5.00 lakhs (Rs.3.00 lakhs) + (Rs.50,000.00) = Rs.3.50 lakhs
III	Total Cost of the project: Rs.20.00 lakhs Margin Money Payble =25% of Rs.10.00 lakhs + 10% of Rs.10.00 lakhs (Rs.2.50 lakhs) + (Rs.1.00 lakhs) = Rs.3.50 lakhs	III	Total cost of project : Rs.20.00 lakhs Margin Money payable =30% of Rs.10.00 lakhs + 10% of Rs.10.00 lakhs (Rs.3.00 lakhs) + (Rs.1.00 lakhs) = Rs.4.00 lakhs
IV	Total cost of the project : Rs.25.00 lakhs Margin Money payable =25% Rs.10.00 lakhs + 10% Rs.15.00 lakhs (Rs.2.50 lakhs) + (Rs.1.50 lakhs) = Rs.4.00 lakhs	IV	Total cost of the project: Rs.25.00 lakhs Margin Money payable 30% Rs.10.00 lakhs + 10% Rs.15.00 lakhs (Rs.3.00 lakhs) + (Rs.1.50 lakhs) = 4.50 lakhs)

Name of the Scheme

Location and person to be contacted

Mode of Assistance

Khadi Spinning and Weaving

There are 210 Rural Textile Centres and 80 Sub-Centres exclusively for this scheme spread all over TamilNadu.

Silk Weaving

There are 33 Silk Sub-Centres spread all over TamilNadu.

Marketing

There are 192 Khadi Krafts and 10 Grama Shilphas spread over TamilNadu for Marketing the Khadi and Village Industries Products.

Integrated Tribal Development Programme

Western Ghats Development Programme

Rebate

Special Rebate for Khadi, Silk, Polyster and Woollen varieties as notified from time to time.

All interested Artisans who need employment at their door steps can contact Assistant Director, Khadi and Village Industries in the Districts concerned and Regional Deputy Director of Khadi and Village Industries, Tiruppur, Vellore, Trichy and Madurai.

All interested Artisans who need employment at their door steps can contact the Assistant Director (Silk), Kumbakonam, Kancheepuram, Salem and Joint Director (Silk), Kumbakonam.

All the Village Industries Artisans who are engaged in the Village Industries can contact the Assistant Director of Khadi and Village Industries in the Districts concerned.

Assistant Directors of Khadi and Village Industries, Salem. Tiruvannamalai, Karur, and Dharmapuri

Assistant Director of Khadi and Village Industries, Nagercoil, Erode, Dindigul, Coimbatore, Madurai, Virudhunagar and Tirunelveli.

All Khadi Krafts and Grama Shilphas spread all over TamilNadu.

The Board is supplying Cotton and Charkha to the Spinners and get back yarn by paying wages. Similarly, the Board is supplying yarn to the weavers and get back cloth by paying wages.

The Board is supplying Silk Yarn and Zari to the weavers and get back the finished silk varieties by paying wages.

The Honey collected from Bee-Keepers, pottery fancy articles, dolls, Handicrafts, Carpentry and Blacksmithy articles produced by Village Industries Artisans marketed through Khadi Krafts and Grama Shilphas.

Providing Bee-hives and other accessories to the Bee-keepers.

Providing Bee-hives and other accesseries to the Bee-keepers.



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