{"id":21150,"date":"2017-01-28T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T12:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=21150"},"modified":"2017-01-28T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T12:40:38","slug":"biotechnology-sector-achievements-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/biotechnology-sector-achievements-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biotechnology Sector Achievements Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Currently, India\u2019s biotech industry holds what percent of the global market share?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 2%<br \/>\n(b) 3%<br \/>\n(c) 4%<br \/>\n(d) 5%<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 18 January 2017; Ministry of Commerce and Industry&#8217;s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) released Achivement Report of Biotechnology Sector under in Make in India.<\/li>\n<li>The sector in India, which is currently growing at 20%, is expected to go up to USD 11.6 Billion by 2017.<\/li>\n<li>The focus is on making the Indian biotechnology sector reach USD 100 billion by 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, India\u2019s biotech industry holds 2% of the global market share and is the third largest in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s first cellulosic ethanol technology demonstration plant developed through indigenous technology was inaugurated on April 22, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>First indigenously developed and manufactured Rotavirus vaccine &#8216;Rotavac&#8217; launched by the Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister on March 9, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>100% FDI is allowed under automatic route for Greenfield projects for pharmaceuticals; for Brownfield projects, 74% FDI is permitted under the automatic route.<\/li>\n<li>The National Biotechnology Development Strategy 2015-2020 was launched on December 30, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Andhra Pradesh launched its Biotechnology Policy 2015-2020, Gujarat launched its draft Biotechnology Policy of the State for 2016-2021, Rajasthan launched Biotechnology Policy 2015 with an aim to establish world class research institutes and bio-manufacturing infrastructure and Telangana launched the Life Sciences Policy (2015-2020).<\/li>\n<li>The Government aims to scale-up the number of start-ups in biotechnology sector to 2,000 over next three years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pibphoto.nic.in\/documents\/rlink\/2017\/jan\/p201711802.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pibphoto.nic.in\/documents\/rlink\/2017\/jan\/p201711802.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Currently, India\u2019s biotech industry holds what percent of the global market share? (a) 2% (b) 3% (c) 4% (d) 5% Ans: (a) Related facts: On 18 January 2017; Ministry of Commerce and Industry&#8217;s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) released Achivement Report of Biotechnology Sector under in Make in India. The sector in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-21150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}