Stressing on the need for "greater self reliance", he had said that villagers should give up the notion that the government is the doer while people were only beneficiaries.
Inaugurating the Trade Facilitation Centre and Crafts Museum, the Prime Minister pitched for giving a boost to the textile sector "which is second only to agriculture in terms of the number of people involved" and announced a package of Rs 2375 crore to revive 16 district cooperative banks of eastern UP which were closed down recently.
Encouraging use of Khadi, Modi said on more than one occasion he was delighted to learn that ever since he gave a call on Gandhi Jayanti exhorting people to buy "at least one Khadi item, however, small it may be" there has been "an 125 per cent increase in the consumption" of the hand-spun fabric.
