News: The Government of India has approved the Tex-RAMPS scheme to boost innovation and competitiveness in the textiles sector.
About Tex-RAMPS Scheme
- Textiles Focused Research, Assessment, Monitoring, Planning and Start-up (Tex-RAMPS) Scheme is for future-proofing India’s textiles and apparel ecosystem.
- Type of Scheme: It is a Central Sector Scheme.
- Ministry involved: It is fully funded and implemented by the Ministry of Textiles.
- Timeline: The scheme is co-terminus with the upcoming Finance Commission cycle.
- Aim: It addresses critical gaps in research, data systems, innovation support and capacity development.
- Vision: Its vision is to position India as a global leader in sustainability, technology and competitiveness.
- Financial layout: The scheme has an outlay of ₹305 crore for for 2025–31.
- Key component: The key components are research and innovation, data, analytics and diagnostics, the Integrated Textiles Statistical System, capacity development and knowledge ecosystem, and start-up and innovation support.
- Key features:
- Integrated Textiles Statistical System (ITSS): It a real-time analytics platform intended to improve structured monitoring and strategic decision-making across the sector.
- It will foster entrepreneurship by supporting incubators, hackathons and collaborations between academia and industry to promote high-value textile start-ups.
