FUTURE
SCOPE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN INDIA – FOCUS AREAS
Sustainable development ensuring
food, nutritional, health, environmental and livelihood security of the people
by harnessing the powers of biotechnology would be a dream of the scientific
community.
Translating
these dreams into reality would give a major impetus to our socio-economic
progress. Time-bound, mission mode, result oriented projects to be taken up
for:
1.
Utilization of the full potential of the genomics revolution for humankind,
plants, animals and microbes;
2.
To develop new vaccines, diagnostics, drugs and drug delivery system;
3.
To produce a large number of low-cost, affordable small proteins and
therapeutics using the plants and animals as bioreactors;
4.
To engineer crops with enhanced nutritional status, biotic and abiotic
resistance and introduce precision farming with new quality traits for
productivity enhancement;
5.
To develop environmentally friendly technology packages for pollution control,
biodiversity conservation and restoration of damaged ecosystems.
6.
Long term support would continue for basic research on all aspects of molecular
biology, genetics and genomics, proteomics and neurosciences.
Biotechnology research, development and
commercialization, in the next 10 years would thus focus on:
Basic Research in New Biology and Biotechnology
(a) Genomics
(b) Bioinformatics
(c) Basic
biological phenomena with potential application
(d) Agriculture,
Plant and Animal Biotechnology
(e) Environment
and Biodiversity
(f) Medical
Biotechnology
(g) Biofuels
(h) Bioprocesses,
Product Development, and Bioinstrumentation
(i) Human
Resource Development
(j) Creation and Strengthening of Infrastructure
in Existing Institutions and setting up
new Institutions
(k) Biotechnology
for Societal Development
(l) Biosafety,
Ethical and Proprietary Issues
(m) Basic
Research in New Biology and Biotechnology
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