Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) on 24th August 2024, for India’s first Policy in Biotechnology, the ‘BioE3 (Biotechnology for Economy, Environment and Employment) Policy for ‘Fostering High Performance Biomanufacturing’. This Policy lays down the framework for the implementation of the Biomanufacturing and Bio-foundry Initiative and enables start-ups, SMEs, industries and academia with access to shared infrastructure/facilities and resources for pilot & precommercial scale biomanufacturing of viable commercial bio-based products.
BioE3 Policy for a green, clean, prosperous, and self-reliant India, will empower Indian institutions and industries to engage in transformative innovation through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and international collaborations. Biomanufacturing leverages engineering microbial, plant, animal and human cells with increasing precision and control to produce commercially important products. In addition to enabling India’s emissions reduction goals, Biomanufacturing will also have a transformative impact across diverse sectors of health, agriculture, food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, materials, biofuels, etc. ‘Fostering High Performance Biomanufacturing’ stimulates and intensifies technology development.
The मूलांकुर Bio-Enablers will augment discovery and translation research to enable biomanufacturing across the six sectoral prioritized verticals.The Bio-AI Hubs will enable discovery research across the sectors.Bio-manufacturing Hubs consisting of sophisticated instrumentations, technology platforms such as data acquisition and analysis capabilities along with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), omics and biomaterial libraries translate knowledge into scaled up applications, and wide spread socio-economic impact. These hubs are expected to be established under the following three categories: a) Using existing facilities b) Augmenting existing facilities and c) Setting up new facilities.
As part of this initiative, several calls have been proposed to support product/technology development as well as establishment of shared infrastructure. The initiative will be implemented by DBT in collaboration with BIRAC where academia will be supported by DBT and other entities by BIRAC.
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Last Updated: 13 May, 2025
