Chaired by Textile Secretary, Ministry of Textiles under the National Textiles Mission, the 10th Empowered Program Committee (EPC) approved a grant of approx Rs 50 lakh each for four Start-Ups under the ‘Grant for Research & Entrepreneurship across Aspiring Innovators in Technical Textiles (GREAT)’ scheme. The approved Start-Up projects focus on key strategic areas of Medical Textiles, Industrial Textiles and Protective Textiles.
The committee has also approved a grant of approx Rs 6.5 crore to three educational institutes to introduce courses in Technical Textiles under the ‘General Guidelines for Enabling of Academic Institutes in Technical Textiles’. IIT Indore and NIT Patna are amongst the list of approved institutes. These institutes will introduce courses in Geotextiles, Geosynthetics, Protective Textiles, Sports Textiles etc. in their e curriculum.
Further, the committee has also approved 12 skill development courses across Medical textiles, Protective Textiles, Mobile Textiles and Agriculture Textiles fields. The courses were developed by three textile research associations; namely, SITRA, NITRA and SASMIRA and aim to provide training to all focus groups of the technical textiles value chain.
