{"id":5252,"date":"2022-12-17T03:10:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T21:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:41:43","slug":"the-cotton-textiles-export-promotion-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/the-cotton-textiles-export-promotion-council\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>About Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council is the <strong>first Council set up after Independence by the Government of India in 1954 is an autonomous, non-profit body dedicated to promotion of exports.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council, popularly known as TEXPROCIL has been the international face of cotton textiles from India facilitating exports worldwide.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Texprocil has a membership of around 3,000 companies spread across major textile clusters in India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its members are well established manufacturers and exporters of cotton textile products like <strong>Cotton, Yarns, Fabrics and Home Textiles, showcasing a dazzling array of products across the value chain.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Council connects international buyers with appropriate suppliers and facilitates interaction that enables them to source their specific needs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It also provides information on India&#8217;s competitive advantages, its export environment and updated position in the global market place.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Council promotes exports of\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Raw Cotton<\/li>\n<li>Cotton Yarns and Blended Yarns (50% or more cotton) Grey and Processed ( doubled, gassed, mercerized, dyed, melange); Cotton and Blended (50% plus cotton)<\/li>\n<li>Woven and Knitted fabrics , Grey and Processed<\/li>\n<li>Home Textiles ( Bed linen, Kitchen linen, Bath towels and Other linen)<\/li>\n<li>Technical textiles ( Protective, Performance, Medical and Geo textiles)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Technical textiles?<\/h3>\n<p>Technical textiles are defined as textile materials and products used primarily for their technical performance and functional properties rather than their aesthetic or decorative characteristics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G8JAL35L1.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council is the first Council dedicated to promotion of exports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}