Lok Sabha Question No. 2442 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-21
Subject: Biotechnology Parks
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Jagdambika Pal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2442 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.12.2022

## Biotechnology Parks

## 2442. SHRI JAGDAMBIKA PAL:

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY विज्ञान और प्रौद्योविकी मंत्री be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  details  of  the  number  of  biotechnology  parks  currently functioning in the country;
- (b)  the  manner  and  extent  to  which  the  Nation's  growth  and development is benefitted by such parks;
- (c) whether all the parks that were set up are functioning, if so, the details  thereof  and  if  not,  the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to restart the park; and
- (d)  whether  the  Government proposes to set up more parks in the country especially for the state of Uttar Pradesh and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

विज्ञान और प्रौद्योविकी तथा पृथ्वी विज्ञान मंत्रालय क े राज्य मंत्री ( स्वतंत्र प्रभार ) ( डॉ . वितेंद्र व ंह )

- (a)  to  (c)  The  details  of  biotechnology  parks  set  up  and  currently functioning in the country are as follows:

|   S. No. | State         | Name of biotechnology park                                   |
|----------|---------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Uttar Pradesh | Biotech Park, Lucknow                                        |
|        2 | Telangana     | Biotechnology Incubation Centre, Hyderabad                   |
|        3 | Tamil Nadu    | Tidco Centre for Life Sciences (TICEL) Biotech Park, Chennai |

|   4. | Tamil Nadu   | The Golden Jubilee Biotech Park for Women, Chennai                 |
|------|--------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|    5 | Assam        | Biotech Park Technology Incubation Centre, Guwahati                |
|    6 | Kerala       | Biotechnology Incubation Centre, Cochin                            |
|    7 | Karnataka    | Biotechnology Park, Bangalore                                      |
|    8 | Kathua (J&K) | Industrial Biotechnology Park - Inaugurated, to be functional soon |

In  addition,  the  following  biotechnology  parks  have  also  been supported and are under construction/establishment:

1. Chhattisgarh Biotech Park: Presently, the Park is functioning in temporary  building  in  the  campus  of  Indira  Gandhi  Krishi Vishwavidhyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
2. Biopharma  Growth  Phase  park  and  a  common  Scale  up manufacturing facility with training provision in Genome valley, Hyderabad
3. Industrial Biotechnology Park, Handwara (J&K)

These biotechnology parks are successfully accelerating the commercialization of new technologies, assisting new enterprises to forge appropriate linkages with other stakeholder of biotechnology sector including academia, industry and Government. Several incubatees have been benefitted from this support. This has helped in the promotion of commercial development of biotechnology within the  country  by  setting  up  of  research  laboratories  for  product development, startup companies and small and medium enterprises. A brief of achievements of these Parks are given in Annexure-1.

(d) Biotechnology park scheme is an ongoing scheme of the DBT. New proposals to set up biotechnology parks have been received from the states  of Andhra  Pradesh,  Arunachal  Pradesh,  Manipur,  Madhya Pradesh  and  West  Bengal.    No  proposal  to  set  up  for  any  new biotechnology park has been received from Uttar Pradesh.

## Achievements of biotechnology parks:

|   S. No. | Name of the biotechnology Park                               | Achievements in brief                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Biotech Park, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh                         | The park has generated employment for about 600 persons. Presently, there are 12 incubatees. More than 30,000 biosciences students have been trained.                                                                                                                     |
|        2 | Biotechnology Incubation Centre (BTIC), Hyderabad            | 11 incubatees graduated from the park and operationalized successfully. Tergene Biotech which moved out from this Park is the first Indian Company to conduct research on Polysaccharide Base/Conjugate Vaccines for Humans and developed Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine. |
|        3 | The Golden Jubilee Biotech Park for Women, Chennai           | Presently it houses 13 companies inclusive of 5 start-ups and three incubatees. All entrepreneurs are women.                                                                                                                                                              |
|        4 | Tidco Centre for Life Sciences (TICEL) Biotech Park, Chennai | The Park has 100% occupancy with National and International clients. The tenancy area has 74 modules available for clients to develop their own customized R&D labs of BSL2 standards, upgradeable to BSL3, in accordance with GLP standards.                             |
|        5 | Biotechnology Park, Bangalore                                | The park caters to the broad areas of Life Sciences i.e. Healthcare, Agriculture, Food & Nutrition, Industrial Biotechnology and Environmental Biotechnology. A total of 17 incubatees have been moved out.                                                               |
|        6 | Biotechnology Incubation Centre, Cochin                      | Currently 28 incubatees are housed and 5 are graduated. About 25 products have been generated and marketed and around 20 products are in pipeline.                                                                                                                        |
|        7 | Biotech Park Technology Incubation Centre,                   | The Park has 8 incubatees, 18 graduated and has major infrastructure facilities for fermentation, micro-propagation, herbal                                                                                                                                               |

## Annexure-1

|    | Guwahati                            | extraction, bioprocessing unit. Terra Blue XT company which is now graduated out has generated more than 40 employments.   |
|----|-------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|  8 | Chhattisgarh Biotech Park Presently | 6 Incubatees are housed.                                                                                                   |

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