ANNUAL REPORT - Department of Biotechnology

Biotechnology Park at Lucknow
The Biotech Park at Lucknow has become
functional. Six industries have availed the facility.
Three of these industries would share 50% of their
profit with the Biotech Park. The administrative block
and Bio-informatics Centre have been shifted to a
new building and are operational. Agreements have
been signed under Public Private Partnership for
setting up tissue culture units, biofertilizer units and
the Central support facility for analytical and
molecular biology and these are expected to be
operational in March, 2007. Through its tissue
culture facility, the Biotech Park anticipates to
provide 3-4 lacs elite plantlets of jatropha and 2-3
lacs banana plants. An MOU was signed in Nov.,
2006 with an industry to be a technical Partner and
another one with NBRI, Lucknow for development
and updating the website of ENVIS Centre. An MOU
was also signed with a US firm registered in India for
using the constructed space and with other three
firms for their investment and setting up of units.
About 90 persons were trained so far in four
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Bioinformatics training programmes. Regular kisan
ghosthis were conducted in collaboration with NBRI,
CIMAP etc.
Biotechnology Park/Incubation Centre and
Common instrumentation facility at Bangalore
The Biotech Park project in Karnataka has been
structured as three components (a). Institutional
Block and the Research & Development Block
comprising of the Institute of Bio-informatics and
Applied Biotechnology and the Centre for Human
Genetics; (b) Biotech Incubation Centre and
Common Instrumentation Facility; and (c)
Biotechnology Industries Cluster comprising of
independent private industry units with a Common
Effluent Treatment Plant. The DBT has provided
support for a common instrument facility and animal
facility for the Biotech Incubation Centre. The
Karnataka Biotechnology and Information
Technology Services (KBITS) is the implementing
agency for the Biotech Park Project in Karnataka and
the formal approval of SEZ status for 37 hectares
area has been taken. KBITS has identified a few
Public Private Partners.