Friday, December 20, 2011
New Delhi, Dec 20 (PTI) Seeking to boost innovation, a bill to set up a regional centre in biotechnology, under the auspices of the UNESCO, in the National Capital Region (NCR) was introduced in the Lok Sabha today. Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh introduced the Regional Centre for Biotechnology Bill to set up the institution to undertake research in the field of biotechnology. The centre proposes to engage students in research by integrating science, engineering and medicine with a view to creating high quality human resource in disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. The bill also seeks to create physical infrastructure in critical platform technologies to support inter-disciplinary education training and research in biotechnology for providing interface between agriculture or veterinary sciences and engineers and environmental biologists, ecologists and engineers for agricultural and environmental technologies in order to help molecular breeding, bio-energy and green technologies. The centre is expected to help produce human resources tailored to drive innovation in biotechnology, particularly in areas of new opportunities and to fill talent gap in deficient areas. (IBN Live, Dec 20, 2011)
