Ministry of Textiles has approved the Pilot Project on skilling of Design and Commissioning technical personnel associated with application of geo-textiles in infrastructure projects. The project will be conducted concurrently by Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

The coordinating faculty of the concerned fields of Engineering will look after the implementation of the special courses in consultation with the other concerned centres.  

Ministry of Textiles will coordinate for all matters related to conducting of these Courses. A batch will consist of minimum 75 to maximum 100 candidates and during the pilot phase, two batches are scheduled for each of these three Institutes.