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DBT has established Biotechnology
Labs at 88 Senior Secondary Schools
from NER under BLiSS programme. An
amount of Rs 2.20 crores has been
spent to create laboratory
infrastructure at senior secondary
school level.
to be operational by
2018.
phYtO-phARmA
plANt mISSION
ANNOUNCEd
DBT has announced a
(Rs 50 crore) mission
aiming at conservation
and cultivation of
endangered and
threatened endemic
medicinal plants of
North East India and
discovery of new
botanical drugs for
unmet medical needs
using the rich
traditional ethno-
botanical knowledge
cover story
entire ecosystem of the
river and
surroundings. This lab
will link all the local
research institutions as
well as national and
international
laboratories along the
Brahmaputra.
B4 will have capability
to analyse soil, water,
and biodiversity of
environment, plant and
these states. This
animal life, human
mission would also
health and agriculture
help to improve the
and an equal
availability of authentic component that
and quality botanical
involves local citizens
raw material on
in the experimental
sustainable basis for a process of science in
boom in the phyto-
data generation and
pharmaceutical
management. B4 will
industry.
also have a teaching
laboratory for
BRAhmApUtRA
school/college
BIOdIVERSItY ANd
children. It is also
BIOlOgY BOAt (B4)
proposed to have
A well-equipped
mobile satellite boat
laboratory that
labs, which will run
contains facilities for
along the tributaries of
analysis of all
Brahmaputra to feed in
components of the
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