Kerala: Govt doctors, nurses to switch over to Khadi overcoats

Kannur: Kerala government, as part of their new initiative to revive the state's khadi industry, has decided to supply overcoats made of khadi to doctors, nurses, and medical students at government hospitals. 

The project was inaugurated at the state level by P Jayarajan, vice-president of the Kerala Khadi and Village Industries Board, at 10.30 am on Tuesday at the Kannur government medical college hospital (MCH) in Pariyaram. 

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The overcoats would be produced by the Payyannur centre of the Khadi Vyavasaya Board, with the hope that the project would bring more money to the board. The event would be presided over by S Prathap, the principal of Kannur MCH. 

Jayarajan observed that doctors, medical students, and nurses would receive Khadi overcoats during the event on Tuesday, which would also see the first batch of 160 MBBS students at Kannur MCH and students of Kannur AKG nursing college wearing the Khadi overcoats. The project would also be implemented at the Kozhikode Medical College and Hospital, said Jayarajan. 

Jayarajan had written a representation asking the government to help in the project associated with providing overcoats to doctors. He had provided a model of the suggested overcoat in his representation that time. He noted that the khadi board would publish a circular with a direction for private hospitals to implement the programme as well after the project is implemented in government hospitals, as per a media report in The New Indian Express. 

When the Khadi board had sought the government's help in reviving the khadi industry, the government had suggested that its employees could wear dress made of khadi once a week. Jayarajan noted that this suggestion of the government was followed by all its employees who wear khadi once a week in Kannur.  He said, "Almost 90% of government employees in the district are doing it." 

Jayarajan further elaborated on the khadi board's plan to expand the programme to the cooperative sector as well as part of their efforts to boost the Khadi industry. 

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