Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:
(a) whether the Government has set up Tobacco Institutes in India; and
(b) if so, the details thereof, State/ UT-wise?
Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:
(a) whether the Government has set up Tobacco Institutes in India; and
(b) if so, the details thereof, State/ UT-wise?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND
FAMILY WELFARE
(SMT. ANUPRIYA PATEL)
(a) & (b): Central Tobacco Research Institute (CTRI) was established in Rajahmundry (Andhra Pradesh) in 1947, which is under the control of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India. The mandate of this Institute are (i) basic and strategic research on domestic and exportable types of tobacco, improvement in quality and value added products (ii) coordination of tobacco research and developing alternate usage of tobacco (iii) identification of alternative crops/ cropping systems for tobacco growing regions of the country (iv) dissemination of technologies and capacity building.
The institute has six Regional stations at Guntur, Kandukur, Jeelugumilli (Andhra Pradesh), Vedasandur (Tamil Nadu), Hunsur (Karnataka) and Dinhata (West Bengal).