Vol. 11, Special Issue 10 (2022)

Author(s):
Gayatri, Alka Goel and Sakshi

Abstract:
Khadi is handspun, hand woven fabric made largely out of natural fibers like wool, cotton and silk. The mixture of any of such fibers with synthetic fibers known as poly khadi. Earlier, khadi was considered as the fabric for the politicians, poor rural workers, farmers and aged people. Apart from them, many high-profile personalities and economically sound people prefer to wear khadi. Nowadays, many garments are made from khadi fabric such as salwar suits, shirts, skirts etc. Still, in the present time, many people have an outdated reputation about the khadi and considered it as old fashioned fabric. Thus, this study was planned to gather information about preference of youths towards khadi. The study was conducted in two universities i.e., Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar and Thakur Dev Singh Bist (DSB), Nainital campus located in Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital districts respectively from Kuma on region of Uttarakhand state of India. In the present study, a survey method was used for data collection and a self-structured questionnaire cum interview schedule was used as a tool. A stratified random sampling method was used for sample selection. A total one hundred females between 21-31 years of age were selected as the sample size for study. Collected data analyzed by using frequency and percentage. It can be concluded from study that youth were preferred khadi fabric but due to some reason such as lack of variety and lack of trendy garments in Shri Gandhi Ashram, khadi fabric popularity was decreases. So, to make awareness regarding use of khadi, various activities were also suggested by youth. Overall, this study indicates that, though the khadi is used from ancient times, again it is getting popularity in youth of Uttarakhand.