National Technical Textiles Mission- New Projects

On January 17, 2022, Ministry of textiles cleared 20 strategic research projects, worth Rs 30 crores, in the areas of specialty fibres and geotextiles.

Key Points

• These projects fall under government’s flagship programme ‘National Technical Textiles Mission.’
• Out of 20 Research projects, 16 projects of specialty fibres were cleared. It includes:

1. 5 projects in healthcare
2. 4 projects in industrial and protective
3. 3 projects in energy storage
4. 3 projects in textile waste recycling, and
5. 1 in agriculture

• 4 projects in geotextiles (infrastructure) were also cleared.
• Several leading Indian Institutes, Centres of Excellence and Government Organizations including IITs, BTRA, DRDO, etc participated in the session that cleared projects strategic for the development of Indian economy.
• These projects are step in the direction of Atmanirbhar Bharat, especially in Healthcare, Energy Storage, Agriculture, Industrial and Protective, Textile Waste Recycling, and Infrastructure.

National Technical Textiles Mission

The National Technical Textiles Mission was launched with the aim of positioning India as a global leader in technical textiles and increasing the use of technical textiles in domestic market. It aims to take domestic market size to 40billion–50 billion by 2024. The mission will be implemented for four years, starting from 2020-2021. A Mission Directorate has been made operational in Ministry of Textiles