The Biotechnology department of the Tripura government is honoured with the prestigious SKOCH award 2025 for the remarkable contribution in College Biotech Club project, said science and technology minister Animesh Debbarma on Thursday.
Addressing a press conference here in the conference hall of the state pollution control board, the minister said that the award will be presented at a function in Habitat Center in New Delhi on March 29 next.
SKOCH is an independent and renowned organization in the country and it mainly works on three areas: good governance, environmental protection and innovative technology, he said, adding that this year, nearly 400 project applications from 27 states were submitted to this organization for this award.
The Department of Biotechnology earlier received the SKOCH Silver Award in 2022 for its innovative Bio-village 2.0 project.
The minister said that the department of Biotechnology is already working on implementation of 24 Bio-village 2.0 projects in the state. Another 6 bio-villages 2.0 are targeted for implementation in FY 2025-26. A Pune-based NGO has expressed interest in implementing the Bio-village 2.0 project in Tripura and visited a few bio-village projects.
So far the department has implemented 17 college biotech clubs in 17 degree colleges of the state, he said, adding that there are 4 more implementation targets in FY 2025-26. He said the college biotech club scheme was limited to general degree colleges only till this year. But from the financial year 2025-26, its scope has also been brought under the field of medical, veterinary, agriculture, fisheries etc. colleges, he told reporters.
He said that new innovative technologies are being developed in the state through college biotech clubs.
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