Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nKVIC Chairman Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena said that earlier the\nwasted pottery items were grinded in normal khal-musal (mortar and pestle) and\nits fine powder was mixed with the normal clay. Mixing this powder in\nstipulated ratio to normal clay makes the resulting pottery items stronger.\nThis Terracotta grinder will make grinding of wasted pottery items faster than\nthe traditional mortar and pestle. It will lessen the cost of production, and\nwill also help in solving the problem of shortage of clays. He said the cost of\none tractor trolley of clay is Rs 2,600 in the Varanasi area. By mixing 20\npercent of this wasted terracotta powder, the potter will make a saving of at\nleast Rs 520. This will also create more job opportunities in the villages. The\ngrinder was designed by KVIC Chairman, and fabricated by a Rajkot-based\nengineering unit <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this occasion, the KVIC Chairman also distributed 200\nElectric Potter Wheels and other pottery machines among the villagers. This\nwill not only create 900 new jobs, but will also meet the growing demand for\nterracotta products at Varanasi railway station following a direction by the\nMinistry of Railways to Zonal Railways and IRCTC to take urgent necessary\naction to ensure use of locally produced, environment friendly terracotta\nproducts like Kulhad, glasses and plates for serving passengers through all\nstatic catering units at Varanasi and Raibareilly railway stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This machine will be a boon for potters as Union Minister of\nMSME Shri Nitin Gadkari has proposed to introduce kulhads and other terracotta\nproducts at 400 prominent railway stations. The proposal is under active\nconsideration of the Railways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KVIC, as part of its\ncommitment to Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, had also started manufacturing of\nplastic-mixed handmade paper at Kumarappa National Handmade Paper Institute\n(KNHPI), a KVIC unit in Jaipur under its project REPLAN (REducing PLAstic in\nNature). In this project, the waste plastic is collected, cleaned, chopped,\nbeaten and treated for softness. After that, it is mixed with the paper raw\nmaterial i.e. cotton rags pulp in a ratio of 80 % (pulp) and 20% (plastic\nwaste). The institute has sold over six lakh handmade plastic mixed carry bags\nsince September 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) launched a first ever \u2018Terracotta Grinder\u2019 at Sewapuri in Varanasi. This machine will grind the wasted and broken pottery items for re-using in pottery-making. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 KVIC Chairman Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena said that earlier the wasted pottery items were grinded in normal khal-musal (mortar and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[723],"class_list":["post-5771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-terracotta-grinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}