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The 5th Mission Steering Group chaired by Union minister Piyush Goyal has cleared 15 Research & Development (R&D) projects worth around Rs 32.25 crore in key strategic areas. Among these 15 R&D projects, 7 projects of speciality fibres, 2 from protective textiles, 2 from high-performance textiles, 1 from geotextiles, 1 from medical textiles, 1 from sustainable textile, 1 from textiles for building materials were approved. The projects have been approved by the government under the National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM).

Goyal said leading textile manufacturers and institutes should come together to indigenously develop strategic and high-value technical textile products with support of National Technical Textiles Mission.  He also said technical textile machinery and equipment development has been a major challenge which needs collaborative interventions from the government, industry and academia, including commercialisation of the developed machines. He further emphasized that the general guidelines for indigenous development of machines and equipment in the application areas of technical textiles under NTTM is a strong-foot forward and needs to be utilised the industry at its fullest.

The minister urged premier public and private academic and engineering institutes and industries to apply under the education and internship guidelines already launched under the National Technical Textiles Mission on priority basis. He also reviewed the progress of previously sanctioned R&D projects under NTTM during the meeting.