Ministry of Textiles approved Startups in Technical Textiles to boost innovation: Textiles Secretary
Strategic Funding under NTTM
to promote High Performance Textiles Solutions IIT Guwahati to introduce
Geotextiles in Civil Engineering Curriculum with support from NTTM
Ministry of Textiles
approved Startups in Technical Textiles to boost innovation and sustainability
and to foster transformative developments that will shape the industry's
future. This was stated by Smt. Rachna
Shah, Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, while chairing the 7th meeting of the
Empowered Programme Committee (EPC) of National Technical Textiles Mission
(NTTM) here today.
NTTM’s Grant for Research
and Entrepreneurship across Aspiring Innovators in Technical Textiles (GREAT)
encourages young innovators, scientists/technologists, and startup ventures in
the field of Technical Textiles to translate their ideas into commercial
technologies/products and make India self-reliant. GREAT supports individual
entrepreneurs or start-ups for functional prototypes or commercialization of
their technologies for Technical Textiles, she said.
The Empowered Programme
Committee (EPC) has approved 7 startup proposals under the GREAT scheme. GOI is
providing a maximum fund support of INR 50 lakhs per startup. As of date, 8
startup proposals have been approved under NTTM, focusing on sustainability,
composites, high-performance textiles, meditech, and smart textiles, driving
significant advancements in these crucial areas.
Some of the start-ups which
were approved by EPC and can go a long way in driving technology-oriented
manufacturing in India are ‘developing and manufacturing Braided Composites for
Military applications, Radmone Integrated IFF Antenna, Surgical Stimulations
models made-up of composites for training doctors, Nano-fibre infused textiles
for energy generation and sensing.’
Additionally, the EPC has
approved a grant of approximately INR 6.4 crores to IIT Guwahati to introduce
new papers/subjects in technical textiles and upgrade laboratory infrastructure
in its Civil Engineering Department. The grant has been provided under NTTM’s ‘General
Guidelines for Enabling of Academic Institutes in Technical Textiles- for
Private & Public Institutes’.
By enhancing its laboratory
infrastructure and expanding its capabilities in technical textiles, especially
geotextiles, IIT Guwahati, a premier institute in North East Region, would be
better equipped to address the unique geographical and environmental conditions
of the region. The grant would catalyze the institute to become a key enabler
of NER's development by offering technical consultancy and necessary support.
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