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ITTA wants nodal office to coordinate NTTM implementation

06 Feb '20

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Pic: Indian Technical Textile Association

The National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM) announced in the recent budget will create a domestic base for raw material production, push for manufacture of high end technical textile products, boost investments and increase per capita consumption, according to the Indian Technical Textiles Association (ITTA), which wants to see how this mission will be implemented.

“There should be an empowered nodal office that will coordinate all the efforts and make the mission beneficial to the industry,” ITTA chairman KS Sundararaman said in a press release.

The proposed mission has a four-year implementation period from 2020-21 to 2023-24 at an estimated outlay of ₹1,480 crore.

The step is expected to give thrust to production of a wide variety of technical textiles in various sectors, including healthcare, personal protection, infrastructure, automobiles, defence and agriculture, IITA said.

India imports technical textiles worth ₹14,000 crore every year. According to Sundararaman, the size of the technical textile industry in the country is nearly ₹1.16 lakh crore.

The other major announcement expected to give a thrust to the polyester fibre sector is the abolition of anti-dumping duty on purified terephthalic acid (PTA), he said.

However, it is to be seen how the issue of non-availability of high performance fibres, namely, aramidc Carbon, glass, nylon 66, antistatic, FR viscose, etc will be made available in India for which the technical textile industry is fully dependent on imports, ITTA added.

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