New Delhi [India], September 29 (ANI): Ministry of Textiles accepted a complete of 18 Research and and Development tasks price Rs 46.74 crores throughout completely different areas of technical textiles, an official assertion mentioned on Thursday. Addressing the seventh Meeting of the Mission Steering Group (MSG) of National Technical Textiles Mission in New Delhi, Union Textiles Minister Piyush Goyal mentioned, “Industry and Institute’s pro-active and robust engagement is essential for the indigenous development of technical textiles in India.” Among these 18 RD tasks, 14 are excessive worth Projects, 3 are Prototype Grant tasks and 1 is Ideation Grant challenge. The tasks cowl completely different software areas of technical textiles together with 1 Projects from Geotech, 2 of Protech, 2 Indutech, 2 Sportech, 5 Sustainable Textiles, 3 Meditech, 3 SmartE Textiles and 1 Geotextiles have been accepted in the course of the assembly.
The accepted tasks have been led by institutes and analysis our bodies together with BTRA, ATIRA, IIT Delhi, IIT Jammu, NIT Jalandhar, IIT Kharagpur, CSIR New Delhi, IIT Madras, amongst others.
“Emphasis should be on RD for globally highly imported technical textiles items, apart from import-dependent technical textiles items and specialty fibres in India,” Piyush Goyal mentioned.
Textiles ministry mentioned that progress on the Education, Training and Skill Development entrance was additionally reviewed by the Union Minister whereby 26 purposes from 15 Public and 11 Private institutes valuing INR 151.02 Crores have been accepted for introducing papers, procuring laboratory infrastructure and coaching of trainers throughout completely different software areas of technical textiles.
Senior officers from NITI Aayog, 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, Department of Higher Education, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade and members from different Ministries, and eminent members from the trade attended the assembly. (ANI)