Polar Biology agreement signed in India

DBT, MoES have signed an Inter-Ministerial Agreement for cooperation in the field of Polar Biology.

An Agreement (MoU) was signed between the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) on Wednesday for cooperation in the area of polar biology. The agreement envisages mutual collaboration to explore the possibility of cooperation, convergence, and synergy to bring out the expertise and services of both organisations under one roof and work hand-in-hand for addressing relevant questions in the field of polar biology, a statement issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology said. Particularly, biotechnological applications of polar microbes could be the centre point of this collaboration between the MoES and the DBT, it added.