Domestic technical textiles Industry Segment-wise consumption of ...

Sectors
Investment
Needs during
2006-07 to
2010-11 (Rs
Crore)
Projects
with
potential
use of
Geotextiles,
assuming
low
penetration
Potential
Geotech
Spend @ 1-
2% of
project cost
(Rs Crore)
Average
Geotech
spend per
annum
possible over
five year
period
Estimated
Geotech
Spend Rs
Crore '07-
08
Roads
(excluding
PMGSY) 245,000 29,400 441 88 76
Power 665,000 33,250 333 67 NA
Ports 86,000 8,600 172 34 30
Airports 40,000 800 8 2 0
Railways 122,000 7,320 73 15 4
Urban
Infrastructure 22,000 2,200 33 7 2
Others (Gas
pipelines,
SEZs, tourism
etc)** 420,000 50,400 504 101 73
Total 1,600,000 131,970 1,564 313 185
Note:*Others overlap with Oekotech as end-use etc also occurs for waste management
Assumptions: We have assumed conservative use of Geotextiles across sectors. Hence a certain
percentage of projects (value derived from the total investment proposed) have been assumed to use
Geotextiles, varying from a low of 2% in Airports (since few airport projects, wherein only runways
will actually be the end-use) to a high of 12% for Roads sector. As per Industry feedback, we have
assumed 1%-1.5% contribution (variance due to wide variety of end-use specifications) of Geotextiles
towards the total project cost. This gives us the total potential for Geotextiles over the five year
period. Since the demand is project specific, hence we have shown an average annual demand for
Geotextiles.
Our estimates of current sector-wise usage are also shown in the above table. Although Railroad
applications are an important market worldwide, Indian market has not seen the same demand. While
Geotextiles have been sporadically used in Indian Railway track stabilization and other construction
projects for a few years now, it has not been a large market 28 . While Rail Design and Standards
Organization (RDSO) has evolved guidelines on usage of Geotech products in Rail projects, they
don’t have any data on actual usage since usage of Geotech products in projects is decided by the
Regional Railway Divisions individually. In the absence of precise user data, we have estimated usage
based on discussion with Industry and analysis of railway construction tenders.
28 Analysis based on data/information received from Railways. IMaCS has made appropriate adjustments because of
insufficient data.