{"id":135193,"date":"2021-09-18T18:20:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T12:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=135193"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:42:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T09:12:57","slug":"on-prime-ministers-birthday-kvic-launches-series-of-schemes-to-empower-artisans-in-varanasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-prime-ministers-birthday-kvic-launches-series-of-schemes-to-empower-artisans-in-varanasi\/","title":{"rendered":"On Prime Minister&#8217;s birthday, KVIC launches series of schemes to empower artisans in Varanasi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has launched a Scheme called<strong> SPIN (Strengthening the Potential of India)<\/strong>. It has also set up a pottery cluster under SFURTI Scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the SPIN Scheme?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>The\u00a0scheme is aimed at\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bringing self-sustainability in the Indian pottery sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the scheme, KVIC will <strong>facilitate the registered potters to get easy loans<\/strong> from banks under the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-2-interest-subvention-for-shishu-mudra-loans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pradhan Mantri Shishu Mudra Yojana <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will help them in diversifying their activities and enhance their income.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Key Features of SPIN Scheme<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a no-subsidy program. So, there is n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o financial burden on the exchequer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beneficiaries can repay the loans in easy instalments.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Kashi Pottery Cluster?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the first pottery cluster in the Varanasi district set up by KVIC under the SFURTI Scheme.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cluster is equipped with modern equipment like furnaces, electric pottery wheels, blunger machines, pugmills and other modern equipment for higher production of clay pottery.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI)<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Launched by:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Micro, Small &amp; Medium Enterprises(MSME)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim<\/b><b>: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To organize traditional industries and artisans into clusters to make them competitive and increase their income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>KVIC is the nodal agency<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the promotion of Cluster development for Khadi <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as well as for Village Industries products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span> <b>\u201c<\/b><b>On Prime Minister&#8217;s birthday, KVIC launches a series of schemes to empower artisans in Varanasi<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB on 18th September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has launched a Scheme called SPIN (Strengthening the Potential of India). It has also set up a pottery cluster under SFURTI Scheme. What is the SPIN Scheme? The\u00a0scheme is aimed at\u00a0bringing self-sustainability in the Indian pottery sector. Under the scheme, KVIC will facilitate the registered&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-prime-ministers-birthday-kvic-launches-series-of-schemes-to-empower-artisans-in-varanasi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Prime Minister&#8217;s birthday, KVIC launches series of schemes to empower artisans in Varanasi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[9007,9832,9833,9831],"class_list":["post-135193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-agriculture-sector","tag-khadi-industries","tag-kvic-scheme","tag-village-industries","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700479499},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}