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India notifies 3-tier mechanism to implement NTTM

31 Mar '20

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India has decided to go ahead with the ambitious ₹1,480-crore National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM) and has planned to implement it through a three-tier institutional mechanism, the textiles ministry said. The mission, which aims at improving penetration level of technical textiles in the country, has a four year implementation period from 2020-21 to 2023-24.

As per the ministry notification, textiles minister Smriti Irani will lead a mission steering group that would be responsible to approve all financial norms and scientific and technological research projects.

“The Mission Steering Group is fully empowered to approve all financial norms in respect of all Schemes, Components and Programme of the NTTM. In addition, all scientific/technological research projects under the NTTM shall require approval of the mission steering group,” the ministry said.

The next tier comprises an empowered programme committee led by the textiles secretary to monitor the implementation of various components of the mission. It will also approve all projects within the financial limit of each programme as approved by the mission steering group except research projects.

The third tier—the committee on technical textiles on research, development & innovation—would be chaired by a Niti Aayog member and will identify and recommend all research projects related to strategic sectors like defence, paramilitary, security, space and atomic energy.

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