Union Textiles Minister, Shri Piyush Goyal reviews projects under National Technical Textiles Mission
Posted On: 18 JAN 2024 7:02PM
by PIB Delhi
The Union Minister for
Textiles, Commerce and Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution, Shri Piyush Goyal, while chairing the 8th Meeting of the Mission
Steering Group (MSG) of National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM) here today,
emphasized on the need for enhancement of collaborative efforts among the
Government and industry to enhance indigenous development of technical textiles
products.
The Ministry of Textiles
approved 11 project proposals, including 9 R&D projects, 1 project on
machine development and 1 project on equipment development, worth approx. INR
103 crores. One of the projects focused on development of high-strength carbon
fibre for strategic applications to make India self-reliant in the field of
Technical Textiles
The projects cover different
application areas of technical textiles including 2 projects of Protech, 2
Meditech, 2 Mobiltech, 1 Buildtech, 2 Smart Textiles and 1 project of
Sustainable Textiles.
Amongst the approved projects,
research projects were led by institutes and research bodies including
CSIR-NAL, ATIRA, NITRA, IIT Delhi, ICT- Mumbai, NIT-Jalandhar, Colorjet India
Ltd. among others.
The Union Minister reviewed
the progress of different components of National Technical Textiles Mission
including review of sanctioned R&D products, status of applications under
General Guidelines for Enabling of Academic Institutes in Technical Textiles
Education in India (Round- II), implementation of Quality Control Orders issued
by Ministry of Textiles, patents guidelines of R&D, Outreach activities and
events under NTTM, amongst others.
The Minister of State for
Textiles Smt. Darshana Jardosh and Senior officials from Ministry of Commerce
and Industry, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Ministry of Heavy
Industries, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department of Expenditure,
Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Department of Science
& Technology, Department of Higher Education, Department for Promotion of
Industry and Internal Trade and members from other Ministries, and eminent
members from the industry attended the meeting.
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