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Center okays two Start-Ups in field of Technical Textiles

By TIOL News Service

NEW DELHI, DEC 06, 2024: SECRETARY, Ministry of Textiles chaired the 09 th Empowered Programme Committee (EPC) meeting under the National Technical Textiles Mission, today. The committee has approved 02 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 committee has also approved a grant of approx. INR 14 Cr. to 06 Education Institutes to introduce courses in Technical Textiles under the ‘General Guidelines for Enabling of Academic Institutes in Technical Textiles'.

The approved Start-Up projects are focused on key strategic areas of Sustainable Textiles and Medical Textiles. The approved Education Institutes have proposed to introduce new B.Tech courses in different fields and applications of technical textiles including Medical Textile, Mobile Textiles, Geotextiles, Geosynthetics, etc.


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