National Technical Textiles Mission

Technical textiles
  • Technical textiles are material and products manufactured primarily for their technical properties and functional requirements rather than for aesthetic characteristics.
  • The scope of use of technical textiles encompasses a wide range of applications such as agro-textiles, medical textiles, geo-textiles, protection-textiles, industrial-textiles, sports-textiles and many other usages.
Context
  • The Union Minister for Finance had announced a proposal to set up a National Technical Textiles Mission in the budget.
Details
  • India imports a significant quantity of technical textiles.
  • The objective is to position India as a global leader in technical textiles.
  • To achieve this, the mission has an estimated outlay of Rs. 1480 crore.
  • It has a four-year implementation period from 2020-21 to 2023-24.
Significance
  • In India, technical textiles hold immense growth opportunities both for the industry as well as across various applications.
  • Use of technical textiles have benefits of increased productivity in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture fields, better protection of military, para-military, police and security forces, stronger and sturdier transportation infrastructure for highways, railways, ports and airports and in improving hygiene and healthcare for the general public.