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Minister of State for Textiles (Independent Charge), Santosh Kumar Gangwar speaking at the curtain raiser event of Technotex 2016, held in New Delhi on Friday, said that a special focus has been given to technical textiles and has provided capital subsidy of 15 percent for technical textile machinery under Amended TUFS scheme.
The technical textiles can play an important role in the nation's social and economic fronts. As examples, Gangwar pointed out the applications of geotextiles in infrastructure and agrotextiles in improving agricultural productivity and quality of output.