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UP Khadi likely to sign agreement to supply textile to retail major Raymond

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Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh government is likely to sign an agreement with textile major Raymonds to supply indigenous fabric for modern retail.

The UP Khadi Board has already provided fabric samples to Raymonds, which is expected to procure 200,000 metres of UP Khadi annually.

“We will start the supply of khadi to Raymonds as soon as the samples given by the Khadi Board are approved,” UP Khadi principal secretary Navneet Sehgal, who is also the state trade facilitation commissioner, told Business Standard here.

He informed that khadi to be supplied to Raymonds would be manufactured at the UP Khadi production centres situated

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