Question : With how many new projects India and the UK will be enhancing their science and research collaboration ?
(a)FIVE
(b)SEVEN
(c)EIGHT
(d)TEN
Answer : (a)
Related facts
Context
- India and the UK will be enhancing their science and research collaboration with five new projects worth 8 million pounds to tackle anti-microbial resistance, which could lead to important advances in the global fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes.
- The new tie-up was announced on Tuesday(28 July 2020) as Tariq Ahmad, UK Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth, as he conducted a so-called “virtual visit” to India.
Contribution Pattern
- The UK will contribute 4 million pounds from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Fund for International Collaboration, which India will match with its own resources – resulting in the total funding of 8 million pounds.
Other partnership
- The UK has already partnered with India’s Serum Institute to manufacture the vaccine for COVID-19, if clinical trials are successful, with plans to distribute to a billion people across the developing world.
Indian pharmaceutical industry
- India is a major producer of antimicrobials in the pharmaceutical industry global supply chain, and the research projects aim to develop a better understanding of how waste from antimicrobial manufacturing could be inadvertently fuelling anti-microbial resistance (AMR).
By — Pankaj Pandey.