khadi bhavan on the board office campus at kharvala nagar here soon the stateoftheart building will also have a khadi plaza and a hub to market khadi and other handicraft products we are waiting for the final approval from the government the infrastructure will be developed through publicprivatepartnership in zero finance modes said chairman of the board nagendra pradhan pradhan said the board has fixed the target of providing self employment opportunities to as many as 58 170 persons in 5917 projects under the prime minister employment guarantee programme pmegp in this project at least rs 322 crore will be disbursed as loan with a subsidy of rs 814 crore in the last five months over rs 25 crore has been disbursed under 408 projects under the pmegp scheme and benefitted more than 3000 people across the state he saidsources said from about 106 khadi units running at one point of time the number has come down to nearly 30 while of the 40 khadi societies only five are functioningpradhan said marketing has been a major problem for khadi and other products of different village industries the rural artisans with poor quality support are facing tough competition in the market they also dont have enough market linkage the board as been conducting regular exhibitions in rural areas to facilitate marketing of the products in the recent exhibition in the city artisans sold products over rs 30 lakh he said