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The production in the Khadi and Village Industries (KVI) sector, which is the major component of the agro and rural industries sector, has been showing an increasing trend. The total industrial production of the country has also registered an upward trend. As per the data published by the Reserve Bank of India in its Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy (2003-04) the industrial production in the country in the first year of the Ninth Plan (1997-98) was Rs.300696 crore, which grew to Rs. 516023 crore (both at current prices) by the end of the year 2003-04. During the same period, the production in the KVI sector increased from Rs. 4519 crore (1997-98) to Rs. 9682 crore (2003-04). Thus, during the period 1997-98 to 2003-04, the nominal growth of total industrial production in the country was 71.6 per cent, compared with 114.3 per cent in the KVI sector.
Against the original Tenth Plan outlay of Rs. 2950 crore for the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries, an amount of Rs.2745.03 crore has already been made available during the first four years of the Tenth Plan (2002-03 to 2005-06).
This information was given by the Minister of Small Scale Industries and Agro & Rural Industries, Shri Mahabir Prasad in reply to a question by Shri Bhartuhari Mahtab in Lok Sabha today.
MG: PM
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