Minister Giriraj Singh inaugurates two-day International textiles conference at Bhiwani college

Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh said that there was a need to take technical and composite textiles to the village level, asserting that they would play a decisive role in the country’s industrial future.

Speaking as chief guest at a two-day international conference on Advanced Textile Structural Composites and Geosynthetics organised at The Technological Institute of Textile and Sciences (TITS) in Bhiwani, the minister said that the Centre’s textile policy is aimed at establishing India as a global manufacturing and innovation hub.

Earlier, he inaugurated the conference and an exhibition on technical textiles and composites. The minister also visited various stalls at the institute. During the event, the institute signed six agreements to strengthen international academic and industrial collaboration.

The Union Textiles Minister said the Centre had allocated Rs 10,500 crore to the textile sector under the Production Linked Incentive scheme, while Rs 1,500 crore had been provided for textile research, along with an additional Rs 15,000 crore investment in the industry. He said awareness and adoption of technical and composite textiles must reach grassroots communities and described composites as one of the biggest future necessities.

The minister said composite materials would be widely used in building construction, aircraft manufacturing and wind turbines in the coming years. “Despite global tariff challenges, India exported textiles worth more than Rs 6,000 crore that would exceed Rs 200 billion in the future,” he said.

He stressed that youth would play a major role in achieving the vision of a developed India by 2047 and called for embracing innovation and promoting indigenous talent and enterprise.

Singh also said that through the National Technical Textiles Mission, efforts were being made to strengthen research, innovation, start-up promotion and industry–academia collaboration. He added that technology and artificial intelligence are now essential across sectors and that India would not lag behind in technological advancement.

Praising Haryana’s industrial and textile policies, he said that the state’s infrastructure, investment-friendly environment and skill development initiatives were giving fresh momentum to the textile industry.

Mission director Ashok Malhotra said the objective of the Technical Textiles Mission was to take research from laboratories to industry. He said such conferences promote knowledge exchange, technology transfer and global partnerships.

TITS director Prof B K Behra highlighted that structural composite materials are lightweight, strong and durable, making them increasingly useful in aviation, energy, railways and transportation.