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India Government approves 4 start-ups in the field of technical textiles

The approved start-up projects are focused on key strategic areas of Medical Textiles, Industrial Textiles and Protective Textiles.

Posted On 15 Feb 2025
India Government approves 4 start-ups in the field of technical textiles

The Empowered Programme Committee (EPC) meeting under the National Technical Textiles Mission has approved 4 Start-Ups with a grant of approx. INR 50 Lakhs, each, under the ‘Grant for Research & Entrepreneurship across Aspiring Innovators in Technical Textiles (GREAT)’ scheme. The approved start-up projects are focused on key strategic areas of Medical Textiles, Industrial Textiles and Protective Textiles.

The committee has also approved a grant of approx. INR 6.5 Cr. to 03 Education 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. The new institutes will introduce courses in Geotextiles, Geosynthetics, Protective Textiles, Sports Textiles etc. in their course curriculum.

Further, 12 Skill Development Courses across Medical textiles, Protective Textiles, Mobile Textiles and Agriculture Textiles have also been approved by the committee. The courses were developed by 03 Textile Research Associations (SITRA, NITRA and SASMIRA) and intend to providing training to all focus groups of the technical textiles value chain.


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