The Government of India, through Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) functions with 6 Zonal offices located all over the country for promotion of Village Industries. The names of the States/UTs included in the Zones are as follows:-
Sl. No.
Name of the Zone
Head-quarters
States/UTs of the Zone
1.
North Zone
New Delhi
1. Delhi 2.Haryana 3.Himachal Pradesh 4.Punjab 5.Rajasthan 6.Jammu & Kashmir-UT 7.Ladakh-UT 8.Chandigarh-UT
2
Central Zone
Bhopal
1.Chhattisgarh 2.Madhya Pradesh, 3.Uttarakhand 4.Uttar Pradesh
3
North East Zone
Guwahati
1.Assam 2.Arunachal Pradesh 3.Manipur 4.Meghalaya 5.Mizoram 6.Nagaland 7. Sikkim 8.Tripura
4
East Zone
Kolkata
1.Bihar 2.Jharkhand 3.Odisha 4.West Bengal 5.A&N Islands-UT
5
West Zone
Mumbai
1.Goa 2.Gujarat (including Daman & Diu-UT) 3.Maharashtra (including Dadra & Nagar Haveli-UT)
6
South Zone
Bengaluru
1.Andhra Pradesh 2.Telangana 3.Karnataka 4.Kerala 5.Tamil Nadu 6.Puducherry-UT 7.Lakshadweep-UT
At present, all the States are included in these zones.
This information was given by Shri Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
