Underlining the various initiatives taken by the government, Union Minister of State for Textiles, Darshana Jardosh has said that India’s exports of 207 Technical Textile products have grown from $2.21 billion in 2020-21 to $2.85 billion in 2021-22, registering a growth rate of 28.4%.
Minister said that with a view to boost technical textiles sector in the country, the Government has set up the National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM) for a period of 4 years (2020-21 to 2023-24) with an outlay of Rs 1,480 crore. The Mission aims at achieving an average growth rate of 15-20% per annum taking the level of domestic market size to 40-50 Billion USD by the year 2024.
Darshana also noted that the Government has issued General Guidelines for Enabling of Academic Institutes in Technical Textiles’ Education in India for Private & Public Institutes, with the objective of improving learning levels by encouraging new Technical Textiles Degree Programme (UG & PG), updating existing conventional degree programmes with new papers of Technical Textiles etc.
