The Ministry of Textiles has approved four start-ups with a grant of approximately fifty lakh rupees each at the eighth Empowered Programme Committee meeting chaired under the National Technical Textiles Mission in New Delhi yesterday. These startups are working in key strategic areas of composites, sustainable textiles, and smart textiles. The committee has also approved a grant of approximately twenty crore rupees to five education institutes to introduce courses in technical textiles under the ‘General Guidelines for Enabling of Academic Institutes in Technical Textiles’. The approved institutes have proposed to launch new B.Tech courses in different fields of technical textiles, including geotextiles, geosynthetics, composites, civil structures, etc.
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