Delhi Khadi & Village Industries Board

Choosing the right scheme

• Setting up a new micro-enterprise project in Delhi with capital expenditure: PMEGP is the scheme the Board's annual report marks as continuing.
• Artisans and workers in khadi and village-industry trades who have lived in Delhi for at least five years: look at DKKVY.
• RGSRY: confirm its status with the Board before you plan around it.

How applications work

• PMEGP: apply online only, through the PMEGP portal run by KVIC. Manual applications are not allowed.
• RGSRY: the salient-features guidelines allow an online application on the e-District portal of the Government of NCT of Delhi, or a form submitted with documents at the Board's office.
• DKKVY: registration is advertised in newspapers and on posters and the Board's website. Candidates can also register on the central government's e-Shram portal or at Common Service Centres.

Before you apply

• PMEGP: only one person per family, counting self and spouse, can receive assistance.
• PMEGP: units already subsidised under another government scheme are not eligible, and the project must include capital expenditure.
• For RGSRY, the Board's office at Nigam Bhawan, Kashmere Gate is the place to confirm whether applications are open.

Delhi Khadi & Village Industries Board is a statutory body of the Government of NCT of Delhi, established in 1983. It runs employment schemes for people in Delhi who want to set up or expand small enterprises, and a skilling scheme for khadi and village-industry artisans. Its office is at Nigam Bhawan, Kashmere Gate.

How the programmes work

The Board's main employment scheme is the Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), which gives a subsidy for new micro-enterprise projects. Delhi has no District Industries Centre, so the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) runs PMEGP in the city through its state office together with the Board. The project cost can include a term loan for capital expenditure and working capital. Applications are online only, through the PMEGP portal that KVIC has developed. The Board's 2024-25 annual report marks the scheme as continuing, and its site posts minutes of a PMEGP meeting held in May 2026.

Rajiv Gandhi Swavlamban Rojgar Yojna (RGSRY) is a Delhi government self-employment loan scheme that the Board has run since 2004-05, with a government subsidy on the project cost. Its status is contested. The annual report says the government withdrew the scheme by Cabinet decision in September 2025, yet the same report's performance table still marks it as continuing till date. The Board has also posted modified scheme guidelines dated February 2026. Its pages do not settle whether new applications are open.

Delhi Khadi Kaushal Vikas Yojna (DKKVY) is a skilling and recognition of prior learning scheme for khadi and village-industry artisans, workers and entrepreneurs. The Delhi Government notified it in 2026, and the Board runs it through a project management unit. The Board's site lists tenders for implementing agencies under the scheme, and a corrigendum covers the supply of lunch to trainees.

Who can apply

PMEGP is open to individuals above 18 years of age, with no income ceiling for assistance. Projects above a size threshold need at least a Class VIII pass, and that threshold is lower for business and service units than for manufacturing. Projects must include capital expenditure. Only one person per family, counting self and spouse, can receive assistance. Units already subsidised under another central or state scheme are not eligible.

RGSRY's salient-features guidelines name unemployed youths, artisans, trained professionals, skilled technocrats and entrepreneurs in Delhi, aged 18 to 50. The modified guidelines add school and college dropouts above 18. Entrepreneurs must contribute a share of the loan, and that share is lower for SC, ST, OBC, physically handicapped, women and ex-servicemen applicants.

DKKVY is for Delhi residents who have lived in Delhi for at least five years. It covers artisans, workers and candidates in khadi and village-industry trades, such as Pattern Master.

Scale

The Board's 2024-25 annual report gives figures for its two employment schemes. These are the Board's own numbers and run up to 31 March 2025. PMEGP has run in Delhi since 2008-09, and the report records 1,644 units set up and 8,210 jobs of employment generated, including part-time work. RGSRY, since 2004-05, is recorded as 427 units and 1,210 jobs of employment generated, also including part-time work.

Who runs it

The Board was set up in 1983 by extending the Himachal Pradesh Khadi & Village Industries Board Act, 1966, to the Union Territory of Delhi. It is a 100% government-aided institution, and the Industries Department of the Government of NCT of Delhi is its administrative department.

Locations

The office is on the fifth floor of Nigam Bhawan (Old Hindu College), Kashmere Gate, Delhi 110006. The Board's contact page gives the same address. All three schemes apply within Delhi.