The Ministry of Textiles (MoT) has cleared 15 R&D projects worth around Rs. 32.25 crore across key strategic areas during the 5th Mission Steering Group (MSG) meeting held under the chairmanship of Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Textiles, Commerce and Industry and Consumer Affairs.
These projects include 7 projects of Speciality Fibres; 2 of Protective Textiles; 2 of High Performance Textiles; 1 of Geotextiles; 1 of Medical Textiles; 1 of Sustainable Textiles; 1 of Textiles for Building Materials.
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Addressing the meeting, Piyush Goyal said that leading textile manufacturers and institutes should come together to indigenously develop strategic and high-value technical textile products, with the support of the National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM).
He further added that robust outreach exercise is required to attract R&D Proposals in Machinery and Equipment across major textile machinery manufacturing hubs in India. Inter-Ministerial collaboration is required to document and utilise existing and updated technologies for wider usage in the nation-building process, especially in the areas of sustainable technical textiles. Existing beneficiaries of NTTM such as premier institutes and research bodies need to connect with other institutes for wider awareness, benefits and optimal utilisation of NTTM Scheme across India.
The Minister also reviewed the progress of previously sanctioned R&D projects under NTTM during the meeting. In addition, the way forward and action plan for propelling India’s technical textiles sector was discussed and recommended including Wider Field-level Outreach Programmes for Research in Fundamental, Applied and Machine Development across TRAs; Premier Institutes and Industry Associations; Development of new BIS standards; Enactment of new Quality Control Orders (QCOs); Rationalisation of HSN Codes; Mandation of technical textiles’ items across Line Ministries and Departments; and Identification of specialised skill requirements in the sector.
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