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A workplace to show the usage of agro textiles, particularly nets, has been acceptable up astatine Navsari, Gujarat, astatine ₹4 crore, and different is coming up astatine Pusa, Bihar, nether the National Technical Textiles Mission, said Mission Director Ashok Kumar Malhotra.
Mr. Malhotra, who was successful Coimbatore connected Thursday (December 11, 2025), told The Hindu that among the 12 large segments of method textiles, agro, geo, and concern textile accumulation person picked up successful India. In agro textiles, the usage of value-added nets, which are made successful India, is becoming popular. If an cultivation assemblage successful southbound India comes forward, a objection workplace tin beryllium acceptable up successful the southbound too, helium said.
The Mission has signed MoUs with 45 acquisition institutes to thatch method textiles to students successful undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including courses connected geo textiles for civilian engineering students. So far, 130 of the 240 students are placed successful method textile industries. The textile probe associations and accomplishment improvement councils besides connection short-term grooming successful method textiles and have, truthful far, trained 1,400 candidates.
For probe and improvement and innovation, the Mission gives ₹50-lakh assistance to startups that are linked to incubation centres. So far, 24 startups are successful antithetic stages of merchandise development. Funds are besides disposable for the improvement of machinery for method textiles. The Mission gives 50% of the task outgo and truthful far, 3 machines are developed indigenously, helium said.
Of the ₹1,480 crore allocated for the Mission that was launched successful 2019-2020, ₹720 crore is used, helium added. Of the full funds, ₹1,000 crore is earmarked for probe and development, and ₹520 crore has been used. Of the ₹400 crore earmarked for education, ₹210 crore has been spent, helium added.
