IBSD celebrates 20th foundation day
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, April 26 2021: Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Imphal celebrated its 20 years of establishment through a virtual event today.

The event was organised with the National seminar on 'Managing Bioresources of NER for Atmanirbhar Bharat' under the leadership of Professor Pulok Kumar Mukherjee, Director of IBSD.

The virtual event was attended by MP of Lok Sabha Dr RK Ranjan, MP of Rajya Sabha Leishemba Sanajaoba, Dr Manju Sharma, former secretary of Department of Biotechnology, C P Goyal, joint secretary, Department of Biotechnology and Dr Govindarajan Padmanaban, Director of Indian Institute of Sciences among others.

IBSD celebrates 20th foundation day

Delivering the welcome speech, Prof Pulok Kumar Mukherjee said IBSD started undertaking relevant research and development efforts in the needed areas categorized in different verticals for research.

Besides IBSD has been undertaking several outreach programmes such as to battle against COVID-19 pandemic and DBT-IBSD has been interacting and actively supporting several COVID-19 testing facilities of NER and also set up its own testing facility jointly with JNIMS, Imphal.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr RK Ranjan who is also a member of IBSD Society suggested that IBSD should develop different technologies and transfer to the entrepreneurs to boost the economy of Manipur and the region.

He appreciated the work undertaken under the phytopharmaceutical mission of the Institute under the guidance of Prof Pulok Kumar Mukherjee.

Also he narrated how IBSD was conceived and established 20 years ago.

Leishemba Sanajaoba during his speech suggested that IBSD should develop partnerships with local communities and improve effective collaboration with various institutions nationally and internationally in the areas of sustainable management of bio resources.

And he appreciated several outreach and research activities of IBSD.

It may be mentioned that IBSD was established on April 26, 2001 as an autonomous National Institute under Department of Biotechnology by Government of India.