HT Correspondent
JORHAT, June 22: A two-day consultative meeting of the department of biotechnology entitled ‘Developing a roadmap for supporting and nurturing Biotechnology in the North East Region by DBT during the next five years” was organised at CSIR-NEIST in Jorhat on Friday and Saturday.
The meet discussed the current state of progress and identified the major challenges of the northeastern region in medical, veterinary, agriculture, aquaculture, environment and bio-energy sectors of biotechnology for developing a roadmap of DBT to strengthen effective and inclusive support to the region.
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The meeting was attended by all heads and representatives of S and T Councils, health departments, veterinary departments of all the eight states of the Northeast and many leading scientists of research institutes of the region like IBSD-Imphal, Pasteur Centre-Shillong, Guwahati Medical College, Jorhat Medical College, Tezpur University, Mizoram University, Veterinary Colleges of Assam, ADMac-Guwahati, NRC-Mithun-Dirang, NRC-Yak-Medziphema, NRC-Pig-Guwahati and several eminent scientists and technical experts from across the country.
Dinakar Salunke, ICGEB, New Delhi shared the genesis of the meeting, necessities and possibilities for future course of action for biotechnology research.
Suraksha S. Diwan of North East Region Programme of DBT highlighted the success stories of DBT support towards promoting biotechnology R&D in the northeastern states. Rajesh S. Gokhale, secretary of DBT, New Delhi in his keynote address encouraged the scientists and academicians to come together to develop S&T mission for uplifting and encouraging biotechnological research in all sectors to reach greater heights in the Northeast.
Virendra M Tiwari, director of CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat welcomed the delegation of eminent scientists and leaders, the DBT organising team and all participants of the meeting. He shared that CSIR-NEIST has been conmtinuously working for the welfare of the northeastern region through quality knowledge and skilled human resource generation, S&T intervention and entrepreneurship development relevant to the northeastern states. On the occasion, a brochure on DBT NER programmes and their achievements was released and prizes of BIRAC funded CSIR-BioNEST Udyomita 1.0 prizes were awarded to the young entrepreneurs who had won.
