The Ministry of Textiles on Thursday, September 28, approved 18 R&D projects worth Rs. 46.74 crores across key strategic areas of Geotech, Protech, Indutech, Sustainable Textiles, Sportech, Smart E-Textiles and Meditech segments during the 7th MSG (Mission Steering Group) meeting.

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According to the official statement, among these 18 R&D projects, 14 are high value projects, 3 are prototype grant projects and 1 is an ideation grant project.

The projects cover different application areas of technical textiles including a project each of Geotech & Geotextiles, 2 each of Protech, Indutech & Sportech, 3 each of Meditech, Smart & e-textiles and 5 projects of sustainable textiles. The approved projects were led by institutes and research bodies including BTRA, ATIRA, IIT Delhi, IIT Jammu, NIT Jalandhar, IIT Kharagpur, CSIR New Delhi, IIT Madras, among others.

While chairing the 7th MSG meeting of the National Technical Textiles Mission in New Delhi today, Union Minister for Textiles Piyush Goyal said that the industry's pro-active and robust engagement is essential for the indigenous development of technical textiles in India.

Emphasising on R&D for highly imported technical textiles items globally, apart from import-dependent technical textiles items and specialty fibres in India, the Union Minister reviewed the progress of different components of the National Technical Textiles Mission. This included a review of sanctioned R&D products, R&D projects in mission mode, formation of a committee for Startups in technical textiles under GREAT guidelines, outreach activities and events including the 6th Edition of the MOT-FICCI-BIS National conclave on Standards & Regulations and Meditex conference in July and September 2023 respectively.

He also reviewed progress on the education, training & skill development front where 26 applications from 15 public and 11 private institutes valued at Rs 151.02 crores were approved for introducing papers, procuring laboratory infrastructure and training of trainers across different application areas of technical textiles.