Question : TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOLS .

(a) Whether department of Biotechnology has supported vacation training programmes for school children on bioresources;

(b) If so, the details of the institutions selected for such training during the last three years, State-wise;

(c) The number of school children trained during the above period;

(d) The number of Rural Bioresource Complexes set up by the Government in different States to help people in value added production;

(e) Whether there is any proposal to set up Rural Bioresource Complexes in all States;

(f) If so, the details thereof; and

(g) If not, the reasons therefor?

Answer given by the minister

MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND MINISTER OF EARTH SCIENCES (KAPIL SIBAL)

(a) Yes, the Department of Biotechnology has supported the â€œVacation Training Programme on Bioresources for School Childrenâ€ at various locations in the country over the last 5 years.

(b) The state-wise details of the programme along with the names of institutes are given below:



S. No.	Name of the Institute	State in which located

1. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and	Delhi
Environment (ATREE), New Delhi

2. Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology,
Annamalai University
3. Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappali
4. St. Josephâ€™s College (Autonomous) Tiruchirappalli
5. Loyola Institute of Frontier Energy, Loyola College,
Chennai
6. M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai
7. Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History	Tamil Nadu

(SACON) Anaikatty (P.O.)Coimbatore
8. Thiagarajar College, Madurai
9. Alagappa University, Karaikudi
10. PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
11. St. Johnâ€™s College, Palayamkottai Tamil Nadu
12. Shri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Center 

(MCRC), Taramani, Chennai
13. Agricultural College and Research Institute, Madurai
14. Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad	Gujarat
15. Gujarat Council of Science City, Ahmedabad
16. National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh
17. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of	Maharashtra
Pune, Pune
18. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai
19. Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education
and Research, Pune
20. Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhubaneswar	Orissa
21. M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Jaypore

(Orissa)
22. School of Studies in Zoology, Jiwaji University, Gwalior	Madhya Pradesh
23. College of Agriculture & Plant Biotechnology Centre,	Rajasthan
Bikaner
24. Regional Research Station, Bawal (Rewari), Haryana	Haryana
25. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment	Karnataka

(ATREE),Bangalore
26. College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Trivandrum	Kerala
27. Environment Protection Training and Research	Andhra Pradesh
Institute (EPTRI), Hyderabad

(c) During the last 3 years, the department has supported 33 such programmes benefiting around 1000 Class X school children.

(d) The Department has launched five Rural Bioresource Complexes.

(e) to (g) As of now, there is no proposal to set up Rural Bioresouce Complexes in everystate. The need to set up such centers would be evaluated critically and on a case-to-case basis keeping in mind the capacity of the host institute, the ability for value addition of bioresources, location-specific needs etc.

Question : TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOLS .

Answer given by the minister

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