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port promotion. This component aims meeting the need for relatively sophisti- research output will be reposted with a
at export promotion of technical tex- cated technical textiles manufacturing ‘Trust’ with the Government for the
tiles enhancing from the current annual units. The Mission will focus on the usage easy and assessable proliferation of the
value of approximately 14000 crores to of technical textiles in various flagship knowledge thus gained through research
20000 crores by 2021-22 and ensuring missions, programmes of the country innovation and development activities.
10 per cent average growth in exports including strategic sectors. The use of A sub-component of the research will
per year upto 2023-24. Export Promotion technical textiles in agriculture, aqua- focus on the development of bio degra-
Council for Technical Textiles will be set culture, dairy, and poultry. The JalJivan dable technical textiles materials, par-
up for effective coordination and promo- Mission; Swachch Bharat Mission; ticularly for agro-textiles, geo-texti!es,
tion activities in the segment. Ayushman Bharat will bring an overall and medical textiles. It will also develop
Education, training and skill develop- improvement in cost economy, water suitable equipment for environmentally
ment would be given a lot of focus. It is and soil conservation, better agricultural sustainable disposal of used technical
observed that education, skill develop- productivity and higher income to farm- textiles, with emphasis on safe disposal
ment and adequacy of human resources ers per acre of land holding in addition of medical and hygiene wastes.
in the country are not adequate to meet to the promotion of manufacturing and
the technologically challenging and fast- exports activities in India. The use of geo- Mission’s mission
growing technical textiles segment. The textiles in highways, railways and ports There is another important sub-compo-
Mission will promote technical educa- will result in robust infrastructure, re- nent in the research activity aiming at
tion at higher engineering and technolo- duced maintenance cost and higher life the development of indigenous machin-
gy levels related to technical textiles and cycle of the infrastructure assets. ery and process equipment for techni-
its application areas covering engineer- Promotion of innovation amongst cal textiles, in order to promote ‘Make In
ing, medical, agriculture, aquaculture, young engineering, technology, science India’ and enable competitiveness of the
and dairy segments. standards, and graduates will be taken industry by way of reduced capital costs.
Skill development will be promoted up by the Mission; along with creation of A Mission Directorate in the Ministry of
and an adequate pool of highly skilled innovation and incubation centres and Textiles headed by an eminent expert in
manpower resources will be created for promotion of ‘start-up’ and Ventures’. The the related field will be made operation-
al. The Mission Directorate will not have
any permanent employment and there
The penetration level of Indian technical will be no creation of building infrastruc-
ture for the Mission purpose. The Mission
textiles segment, which is estimated at will move into the sunset phase after four
$16 billion, is low in India varying between years period.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic
5-10 per cent against the level of Affairs has observed that the technical
30-70 per cent in developed countries textiles are textiles materials and prod-
ucts manufactured primarily for techni-
cal performance and functional proper-
ties rather than aesthetic characteristics.
Technical Textiles products are divided
into 12 broad categories (Agrotech, Build-
tech, Clothtech, Geotech, Hometech, In-
dutech, Mobiltech, Meditech, Protech,
Sportstech, Oekotech, Packtech) depend-
ing upon their application areas. India
shares nearly 6 per cent of world mar-
ket size of 250 Billion USD. However, the
annual average growth of the segment
is 12 per cent, as compared to 4 per cent
world average growth. The penetration
level of technical textiles is low in India
at 5-10 per cent, against 30-70 per cent in
advanced countries. The Mission aims at
improving the penetration level of tech-
nical textiles in the country.
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