Migrant workers engaged in Honey Mission

Migrant workers engaged in Honey Mission

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – Policies and Interventions 

In news

• Responding to the Prime Minister’s call for Aatmanirbhar Bharat, Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) engaged hundreds of migrant workers in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar with its flagship scheme like Honey Mission.
• The distressed migrant workers who were engaged with KVIC’s Honey Mission in Uttar Pradesh in the month of August, have reaped their first honey harvest and are awaiting a bumper yield.

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Honey Mission

• Aim of the Honey Mission: Creating employment for farmers, Adivasis, women and unemployed youth by roping them with beekeeping and increasing India’s honey production.
• Launched by: KVIC 3 years ago
• Under the Honey Mission, KVIC provides training and 10 bee boxes with live colonies to beneficiaries including farmers, beekeepers and unemployed youth. 
• KVIC also runs beekeeping training programmes and courses.

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) 

• It is a statutory body formed in April 1957 (as per an RTI) by the Government of India, under the Act of Parliament, ‘Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act of 1956’. 
• It is an apex organisation under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. 
• Vision – To plan, promote, facilitate, organise and assist in the establishment and development of khadi and village industries in the rural areas in coordination with other agencies engaged in rural development wherever necessary.
• In April 1957, it took over the work of former All India Khadi and Village Industries Board.
• Head office: Mumbai
• Six zonal offices: Delhi, Bhopal, Bangalore, Kolkata, Mumbai and Guwahati.