National BIO-TECH Policy

LOK SABHA

A National Biotechnology Department Strategy having been approved by the Government of India, action has been taken for implementation of some major decisions such as Establishment of an independent National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority, Increased Public Private Partnership programmes, improved quality of Human Resource, creation of Centers of Excellence and other infrastructural facilities, new legislation for protection of IP in public funded R&D.

A number of major new initiatives have been launched- Under the Public Private Partnership-SBIRI Scheme a total of 35 projects have been supported so far and 8 Centers of Excellence projects have been supported across the country.

(i) Two new centers-Centre for translational research in health science and technology and UNESCO regional centre for science, education and innovation have been approved.

(ii) Special human resource initiative for quality improvement have been taken, such as setting up of Star colleges, teachers training programmes, etc.

This information was given by Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Shri Kapil Sibal in a written reply to a question by Shri Sugrib Singh in the Lok Sabha today.

Source: Press Inormation Bureau
Date: March 18, 2008