Technotex 2016,India’s premier exhibition on technical textiles, is to be held in Mumbai from April 21-23 in a bid to make India a global manufacturing hub for technical textiles.
Organised by the union government in association with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) will showcase products from various subsectors of technical textiles, such as Indutech, Meditech, Mobiltech, Ecotech, Geotech, Packtech, Protech, Sportech, Agrotech, Clothtech, technical textiles equipment and machinery, raw materials and textile manufacturing services.
Textiles Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said that technical textiles can play an important role in the nation’s social and economic fronts with growing applications of Geo-textiles in infrastructure and Agro-Textiles in improving agricultural productivity and quality of output.
The Rs 427 crore government scheme to promote geotechnical textiles in the North Eastern Region of India has helped in road construction in the region. He said the airport access road at Imphal has been constructed using Geo-textiles.
He said 13 water reservoir projects in Manipur and Tripura have been approved, besides two projects in road construction and slope stabilization in the two states. All these will utilise Geo-textiles.
Shri Gangwar said that 44 demonstration centers at a total cost of Rs 8.17 crore have been approved, in order to promote Agro-Textiles in North East region; out of this, 23 demonstration centers have started functioning. In addition, 263 Agro-Textile kits have been distributed to farmers in Manipur and Mizoram.
Shri Gangwar said that a pilot scheme has been approved in order to promote Agro-Textiles in other parts of India.
He said that two demonstration centers are being set up under the scheme in drought affected
areas in Amravati district of Maharashtra. Besides this, 60 farmers in Amravati have been identified for distribution of Agro-Textile kits, said the Minister.
The Minister said that the Ministry of Textiles has set up six focus incubation centers at a cost of Rs 17.4 crore. These centers would help budding entrepreneurs build innovative technical textile products in a “plug and play” model, and would help promote Make in India in textiles.
