India holds potential to be global leader in technical textiles market: Union Minister Piyush Goyal

Rajkot, Apr 22 (KNN) Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Friday said that India can emerge as a key player in the global technical textiles market.

The minister was addressing the  Chintan Shivir, a brainstorming session on Technical Textiles organised in Rajkot.

The session was organized by the textile ministry with Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC) and Indian Technical Textiles Association (ITTA).

The Conference brought together industry leaders, manufacturers, researchers, line Ministries and user Departments of Central and State governments on a single platform to exchange ideas and deliberate on the future growth and development of the sector.

Union Minister of State for Textiles Darshana Vikram Jardosh also attended the Chintan Shivir.

Over 50 major industries in the application areas of home textiles and cloth textiles such as Industrial Sewing threads, Adhesive Tapes, Labels and Batches, Furniture and Coated Fabrics, Mosquito Nets, Fibrefill, Filter Fabrics, Household wipes, Stuffed Toys, among others attended the session.

Goyal  also chaired the 2nd meeting on Textile Advisory Group on Man-made Fibres with stakeholders of the MMF value chain.

To meet the growing internal and global demand for sustainable and circular products, India is bracing itself and many Indian innovators are experimenting with technologies and techniques to make the different processes of the textile value chain resource-efficient and environment-friendly, an official statement from the textile ministry said.

The textile clusters in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are frontrunners on the road towards sustainability. 

To celebrate the unity and highlight the oneness of the two regions, Under the ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ Initiative, the Saurashtra Tamil Sangamam is being conducted in Gujarat from April 17-30.

The event is being held in four different places: Somnath, Dwarka, Rajkot and the Statue of Unity at Kevadia.  (KNN Bureau)