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Ms. Smriti Zubin Irani, Minister of Textiles, Government of India, yesterday underlined the need to address the issue of lack of manpower in the technical textiles for which industry needed to first define the requisite skills. After defining the skills, the task would be to bridge the gap in which the industry would be supported adequately by the Government of India.

Related Keywords: Geo textiles, Textile Industry

A special brief was give to the Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and his Meghalaya counterpart Mukul Sangma on the benefits and potential of geo textiles, in the wake of a recent policy initiative by the central government to extend financial support to geo textile based projects to promote ecologically balanced techniques in various sectors ensuring minimum environmental impact.

Both the chief ministers were jointly briefed about on geo textiles based activities in the north eastern states by leading government and industry experts at New Delhi.