The second National Seminar on Standards in Technical Textiles was held on 25 February at Mayfair Banquets Worli, Mumbai by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in collaboration with Ministry of Textiles and Bureau of Indian standards. The theme of this season was Role of Standardisation in Health safety and Environment.

The event began with a inaugural speech by Zohra Chatterji , Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. A compendium on Standards for Technical Textiles was also released at the seminar.

The first session of the event was focused on standards on technical textiles for safety and security of army and navy personnel. While, the second part of the seminar discussed standards on technical textiles for health, hygiene and increasing agricultural productivity.

The standards on agrotextiles for better agricultural productivity were also on discussion.

The final session on standards for increasing efficiency of roads and highways was discussed and included presentations on geotextiles by experts.

Sujit Gulati - Joint Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, A B Joshi - Textiles Commissioner, Shishir Jaipuria - Chairman, FICCI Textiles Committee and Managing Director, Ginni Filaments and Dr A. Didar Singh - Secretary General, FICCI, along with other leading ‘industry captains’ were present at the seminar, to share their valuable thoughts.