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Panel to study use of technical textiles

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The Central Government has constituted an inter-ministerial committee to examine the feasibility of a regulatory framework to promote the use of technical textiles. The panel comprises officials from the ministries of defence, home affairs, health and family welfare, environment and forests, and shipping, road transport and highways. It will look at the possibilities for regulations mandating the use of technical textiles.

Disclosing this, Union Textiles Minister Shankersinh Vaghela said the panel would cover a wide range of applications for technical textiles such as the use of geosynthetics in infrastructure projects, fire-retardant textiles in public places, textiles in landfill sites, use of non-woven disposals in hospital and protective gears for industrial workers.

The panel has been set up as a follow-up to the report of an expert committee on technical textiles. The committee had estimated that the market size for technical textiles could go up to Rs. 29,579 crore by 2007-08 from Rs. 19,130 crore in 2003-04, marking an annual growth rate of 12 per cent.

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