2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau

Use of Technical Textiles in Water Resources Works

(Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation)

WHAT

One day Technical Seminar was organized on “Use of Technical Textiles in Water Resources Works” in New Delhi. The seminar was organised by Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

WHY

The speakers from various fields discussed issues of Standards, Benchmarking & Testing, Technical-textiles for Water Resources Conservation, Advanced methods in use of Technical Textiles, Contractual Matters related to Technical Textiles etc. in detail.

TECHNICAL TEXTILES

Technical textiles are functional fabrics. They have applications across various industries including automobiles, civil engineering and construction, agriculture, healthcare, industrial safety, personal protection etc. Based on usage, there are 12 technical textile segments; Agrotech, Meditech, Buildtech, Mobiltech, Clothtech, Oekotech, Geotech, Packtech, Hometech, Protech, Indutech and Sportech.

Technical Textile products derive their demand from development and industrialization in a country.

HIGHLIGHT OF SEMINAR

The Seminar highlighted various application areas, best practices and mechanisms for encouraging larger usage of Technical Textile in Water Resources Sector and created a platform for all the concerned stakeholders for brain-storming and creating a roadmap to take the Technical Textiles uses to the next level.

BENEFITS

Various parts of India are subjected to floods and environmental degradation. In some of the terrains, the flood management and control can rely on Technical Textiles tubes, containers and bags.

Technical Textiles have been found to perform better than concrete as water protection component because of permeability, flexibility and ease of underwater placement.

SCHEME FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNICAL TEXTILES

SGDTT was launched during the XIth Five Year Plan in 2007-08 with a fund outlay of INR 46.60 Crores. The scheme comprised of three main components; Baseline Survey, Awareness Campaigns and Creation of Centres of Excellence (CoE). The scheme completed its tenure in 2010-11.

TECHNOLOGY MISSION ON TECHNICAL TEXTILES

In 2010-11, Ministry of Textiles launched the Technology Mission on Technical Textiles (TMTT) with two mini- missions.

Mini-Mission- I: The objective of Mini Mission I is standardization, creating common testing facilities with national / international accreditation, indigenous development of prototypes and maintaining a resource centre with I.T. infrastructure

Mini-Mission- II: The objective of Mini Mission II is to provide support for the development of domestic & export markets for technical textiles.

Source: PIB

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