Physical Performance of Khadi and Village Industry: An Analysis

India is known for village Industry and rural artisans from quite a long period of time. Mahatma Gandhiji reflected khadi as one of the important instrument in attaining the Indian independence. It is so because khadi and village Industry together intended to achieve self-reliance by emphasizing on local production and participation of the poor and hunger in the freedom struggle by creating more employment opportunities. But, during the globalization era people of the world looking forward for branded machine-made goods in every product. It is a highly challenging task to rural based and traditional Industry to survive in such an economy. In that context, the paper tries to throw light on the performance of khadi and village Industry in the recent years The Khadi and village Industry is one of the important bread earning sector even today to the majority people of rural India. The progress and prosperity of this sector changes the living standard of the rural people even in the globalization period. This sector is performing well in all dimensions. The very basic thing is creation of employment opportunities to rural sector where agriculture is the main occupation which is seasonal in nature. Particularly, marginal farmers and agricultural laborers fully depending on this sector for whole year works and income. Thus, people of the country should purchase and show more interest and demands for khadi and village industry products so that rural India can develop and rural people can lead a comfortable life. Govt should also support even more, as it is the part of MSME’s sector.