10 BT finishing
schools to be
set up in State
They will make graduate and
d post-graduate students job-ready
m
e BANGALORE: To promote
r.
e
biotechnology sector in the
State, the Department of IT
r and BT has decided to estab-
e lish finishing schools at 10
y institutions across the State.
e The finishing schools will
s equip graduate and post-
r, graduate students with skills
d necessary to make them em-
. ployable and industry-
- ready.
- The 10 institutes, chosen by a
r committee chaired by former
e IISc Director Prof G Padmanab-
n han, will receive upto Rs one
crore from the State. The State
- government will provide finan-
f cial assistance upto 25 percent
of the cost of equipment and in-
struments for the BT finishing
schools, subject to a maximum
of Rs one crore.
The courses will be conduct-
ed over a duration of one year,
which includes six months of
coursework and six months of
internship. The fees for these
courses cannot exceed
Rs 50,000 per student as per
the guidelines issued by the gov-
ernment.
The institutes will be initially
allowed to procure equipment
and other gadgets relevant to
the course. Later, the selection
committee will scrutinise the
procurement details and in-
spect the institutes for release of
funds.
Monitoring by ABLE
The finishing schools will be
monitored by the Association
of Biotechnology Led Enter-
prises (ABLE) and will need to
be accredited by an university.
Some of the subjects that the
finishing schools will train stu-
dents in, include bio-process-
ing, bio-informatics, bio-sensors DH News Service
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and cellular and molecular diag-
nostics. The institutes were
chosen after Karnataka
Biotechnology and Information
Technology Services (KBITS)
invited applications from the
institutes. Out of the 25 applica-
tions received, 19 made presen-
tations to the selection commit-
tee. The ten institutes were
chosen from the 19 shortlisted
institutes after evaluation.
The finishing schools have
been established as part of the
state government's revised Mil-
lennium Biotechnology Policy
announced in 2009. Besides the
newly approved 10 institutions,
two finishing schools at Manipal
Life Sciences Centre, Manipal
and Dayanand Sagar Institu-
tions, Bangalore, have already
been established.