The National Technical Textiles Mission was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) with the goal of making India a world leader in technical textiles.
We'll go through the mission's goals, as well as its components and structure, in detail in this post. All government and UPSC test candidates should attentively review the mission's many aspects.
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Aspirants studying for the forthcoming IAS Exam should expect questions on the topic in the GS 2 and GS 3 papers under Government policies, growth, and development challenges. As a result, applicants must prepare properly.
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About the National Technical Textiles Mission
Some important facts about the National Technical Textiles Mission have been discussed below:
The establishment of this mission has been approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), which is led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
From FY 2020-21 through FY 2023-24, the Mission would be operational for four years.
The authorities have decided on a total budget of Rs 1480 crore for this endeavour.
In the Ministry of Textiles, a Mission Directorate will be functioning.
The President of India has named Mr Nihar Ranjan Dash as the Mission Coordinator for the National Technical Textiles Mission.
The mission was established as part of the Indian government's Make in India programme.
Technical Textiles – A Brief Background
To comprehend the relevance of launching a mission to promote technical textiles, one must first comprehend what technical textiles are.
Technical textiles are a futuristic and attractive subset of textiles that are used for a wide range of applications, including agriculture, roads, railway tracks, sportswear, and health on one hand, and bulletproof jackets, fireproof jackets, high altitude combat gear, and space applications on the other.
What are Technical Textiles, exactly?
Technical textiles are textile materials and products that are designed for technical performance and functionality rather than aesthetic appeal. India accounts for almost 6% of the world's $250 billion market.
Depending on their application areas, the Techincal textiles may be classified into 12 major categories:
- Agrotech
- Buildtech
- Clothtech
- Geotech
- Hometech
- Indutech
- Mobiltech
- Meditech
- Protech
- Sportstech
- Oekotech
- Packtech
Objectives of the National Technical Textiles Mission
The following are the main goals and objectives for establishing an autonomous mission in India to develop technology textiles:
The major goal is for India to achieve the top world ranking in Technical Textiles.
The goal of this mission is to increase the penetration of technological textiles in the country. It's also worth noting that India's penetration of technology textiles is low, at 5-10%, compared to 30-70% in advanced countries.
The government wants to expand the worldwide market for Indian technological textiles.
It has also been broken into four components to simplify the mission's goals.
The mission will concentrate on the use of technology textiles in the country's flagship missions and programmes, as well as vital sectors.
Components of National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM)
Discussed below are the four components of NTTM.
- Component – l [Research, Innovation and Development]
- It has an outlay of Rs.1000 crores
- Two aspects will be promoted through this component:
- Fundamental research at fiber level aiming at path-breaking technological products in Carbon Fibre, Aramid Fibre, Nylon Fiber, and Composites
- Application-based research in geo-textiles, agro-textiles, medical textiles, mobile textiles and sports textiles and development of biodegradable technical textiles
- Fundamental research will be conducted at CSIR laboratories, IIT, and other scientific/industrial/academic laboratories of repute
- Application-based research will be conducted at CSIR, IIT, RDSO, ICAR, DRDO, NAL, etc.
- Component – II [Promotion and Market Development]
- An average growth rate of 15 to 20% per annum will be targeted to take the level of domestic market size to 40-50 Billion USD by the year 2024
- The medium of market development, market promotion, international technical collaborations, investment promotions, etc. will be utilised for the promotion and development of this mission
- Component – III [Export Promotion]
- The current value of the export promotion of technical textiles is approximately Rs.14000 Crore, per annum
- Through this component, the mission aims at increasing it to Rs.20000 Crore by 2021-22
- It also aims at ensuring a 10% increase in the average growth of exports per year up to 2023-24
- Component – IV [Education, Training, Skill Development]
- To meet the technologically challenging and fast-growing technical textiles segment, technical education at engineering level will be promoted through this mission
- Highly skilled manpower will be created to meeting the requirement of the mission
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