At the recent 9th Empowered Program Committee (EPC) meeting, the Ministry of Textiles approved two start-ups under the ‘Grant for Research & Entrepreneurship across Aspiring Innovators in Technical Textiles (GREAT)’ scheme. Each of these start-ups has been granted funds worth approximately Rs 50 lakh (~$5.9 million) to support their innovation and entrepreneurship in technical textiles field.
Besides, the committee also allocated funds worth Rs 14 crore to six educational institutes to introduce technical textiles courses under the ‘General Guidelines for Enabling of Academic Institutes in Technical Textiles.
The approved start-up projects focus on the key strategic areas of sustainable textiles and medical textiles. The approved education institutes aim to introduce new B tech courses in different fields and applications of technical textiles including medical textiles, mobile textiles, geotextiles, geosynthetics, etc.
