Question : BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS

(a) whether the Government is aware of the menace of biological weapons being developed in various countries;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether the Government has assessed the threat of biological weapons to the country; and

(d) if so, the details thereof and the strategy worked out and the roadmap prepared by the Government to deal with such threat?

MINISTER OF DEFENCE (SHRI A.K. ANTONY)

(a) to (d): Information cannot be divulged in the interest of National Security.