The Centre’s Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) under the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) aims to cultivate about 60-70 social entrepreneurs during each of its cohort workshops under ‘Sparsh’ programme to develop affordable biotechnological interventions to address critical societal challenges, said BIRAC MD Jitendra Kumar.
He was participating in the three-day ‘Venture Design Workshop’ at the ‘Sparsh Centre’ held at the Atal Incubation Centre – Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (AIC-CCMB) in collaboration with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), said an official release on Friday.
Sparsh programme, initiated by the Centre, provides fellowship, which spans 18 months and includes a kick-start grant ₹5 lakh, enabling chosen fellows to demonstrate the viability of their ideas and guides them toward building entrepreneurship in social innovation space through biotechnology-based interventions.
