GLOBAL BIO INDIA CONCLAVE-2023 HELD
Bhubaneswar(05/12/2023): The Odisha government is taking steps to include millets in the Bio-Technology policy and this sector is replete with immense output, keeping in view productive role it plays in current developed economy, said Ashok Chandra Panda, Minister, Science & Technology.
He was speaking in the plenary session, after inaugurating Odisha pavilion in "Global Bio India-2023" at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
Attending the three-day Global Conclave organised in joint collaboration of Department of Bio-Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India and Bio-Technology Industry Reseach Assistance Council (BIRC), the Minister said that bio, water and marine resources in Odisha add substantial potencial for growth of bio technology.
He said that better interventions, supportive industrial policy, special bio park and startup ecosystem in Odisha encourge education, research and innovation, intrepreneureship, product development and manufacturing to enable the state to become one of the top biotech innovation and investment destination in the country.
Chithra Arumugam, Principal Secretary, Science & Technology Department, GoO, addressing a session devoted to discuss the policies and investment programmes by the states for biotech industries said that state government promotes biotech startups through technology incubator.
Bharat Biotech will manufacture vaccines in coming days from the special biotech park built by the state government at Andharua, near Bhubaneswar.
She also said that state biotechnology policy will be revised in order to bring major developments in this field.
Ten startups including Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) and Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster (BCKIC) participated in the exhibition organised by Science & Technology Department.
Among the guests, Kiran Mazumdar- Shaw, Executive Chairperson and founder of Biocon visited the exhibition and appreciated the startups from Odisha.
Puja Mishra, Joint Secretary, Dr.Sashikant Dash, Deputy Director (Bio Technology), Senior Scientist L.N.Padhi, Dr.Mrutyunjay Suar, Chairman, BCKIC along with other represntatives and scholars from different institutions are included in the Odisha delegation.
