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30th Jan 2024

India’s textiles ministry and the Andhra Pradesh government hosted a National Conference on Technical Textiles in Vijayawada. It featured discussions on sustainability, circular economy, and infrastructure applications in agrotextiles and geotextiles. Attendees included industry leaders, scientists, and officials like Rajeev Saxena, G Amarnath and...

19th Jan 2024

Ministry of textiles has approved 11 R&D projects in technical textiles, worth ?103 crore, focusing on areas like protech, meditech, and more. Minister Piyush Goyal chaired the 8th NTTM meeting, emphasising collaboration for indigenous development. Projects are led by institutes like CSIR-NAL, ATIRA and IIT Delhi, covering machine and equipment...

13th Jan 2024

The ministry of textiles, through NTTM, is organising a hackathon titled 'Fostering Innovations in Technical Textiles' from February 26 to 29, 2024, as part of Bharat Tex 2024. This event aims to unite students, researchers, and professionals to encourage innovation in technical textiles. Winners may receive funding up to ₹50 lakh under the GREAT...

9th Oct 2023

India’s textiles ministry recently announced extending the implementation date for the Geo Textiles (Quality Control) Order, 2022. The order, scheduled to come into effect on October 7, 2023, will now be enforced from January 1, 2024. The decision was made following requests by firms for time to comply with the specifications of Bureau of Indian...

9th Oct 2023

To ensure superior quality, safety and comprehensive reliability, India’s textile ministry has notified Quality Control Orders for 20 agro textile items that will come into effect from April 1, 2024, a top ministry official has said. The ministry has also sanctioned 11 R&D projects in agro textiles worth ₹13.67 crore for development of innovative...

1st Oct 2023

The Indian ministry of textiles recently announced two quality control orders (QCOs) for six medical textile items and 20 agro-textile items. The QCOs shall come into force on April 1, 2024, for general domestic and foreign manufacturers. The ministry has exempted self-help groups from the medical textile QCOs to foster small-scale production of...

29th Sep 2023

India's minister of textiles Piyush Goyal has approved 18 R&D projects in technical textiles worth ₹46.74 crore. Covering a range of sub-sectors, the projects are spearheaded by leading institutes like IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, and others. The minister also reviewed the NTTM and emphasised the need for R&D in globally imported technical textiles.

29th Aug 2023

Ministry of textiles has introduced the GREAT Guidelines to boost technical textiles startups in India. Offering grants of up to ₹50 lakh for 18 months, the initiative covers various application areas from smart textiles to bio-degradable textiles. About ₹151.02 cr was approved for upgrading 26 academic institutes. QCO measures have also been put ...

27th Feb 2023

This is time for the Indian textile industry to focus on scale, quality, speed and higher volume and capture world markets, according to Indian minister for textiles Piyush Goyal, who recently told a conference session in Mumbai that many international companies tell him they are unable to find high-quality high-volume suppliers in the country.

10th Feb 2023

Indian government has set up the National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM) for a period of 4 years (2020-21 to 2023-24) with an outlay of ₹1,480 crore to boost technical textiles sector in the country. The Mission aims to achieve an average growth rate of 15-20 per cent per annum taking the level of domestic market size to $40-50 billion by the year...