Define textile skill, says Irani

India’s textile industry needs to define the requisite for technical skills and address issues of manpower, #Smriti Irani, the #Minister of Textiles said on Jan 17, 2017.

Speaking at TECHNOTEX-2017, Irani assured that the government would consistently and constantly engage with the industry to create standards for the technical textiles sector.

But the industry needs to come forward and utilize platforms such as TECHNOTEX for convergence of efforts, she pointed out.

#TECHNOTEX 2017 is India’s premier show on technical textiles which will be organized by #Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) jointly with the Textiles Ministry.

The sixth edition of the international exhibition, conference and seminars will be held from April 12 to 14, 2017 in #Goregaon, Mumbai.

The event will showcase products from various sub-sectors of technical textiles such as #Indutech, #Meditech, #Mobiltech, #Ecotech, #Geotech, #Packtech, #Protech, #Sportetch, #Agrotech, #Clothtech, technical textiles equipment and machinery, raw materials and textile manufacturing services.

TECHNOTEX is expected to draw in more than 200 exhibitors, with participation from countries like South Korea, Switzerland, Japan, US, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, the UK, Luxembourg, Austria, Italy and others.

Taiwan and China will have pavilions at the exhibition.

Irani suggested that TECHNOTEX stakeholders should engage with agri institutes and urban local bodies to create awareness amongst them regarding the advantages of agrotech such as less consumption of water and better productivity and of geo textiles such as environment-friendly sustainable growth, respectively.

The Minister also released the Standards on Technical Textiles for standardization of the technical textile products in India. fii-news.com