Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh on Saturday said biotechnology is set to become the driving force of India’s future economy and healthcare, calling it the “next industrial revolution.”

Speaking at the inauguration of SYMRESEARCH 2.0: International Conference on Bioengineering for Global Health at Symbiosis International University in Pune, Dr. Singh said India has already established itself as a global biotech hub with achievements such as the indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, HPV vaccine for cervical cancer, the development of new antibiotics, and major gene sequencing initiatives.

“Future economy, in fact, belongs to biotechnology, just as the last revolution in the 1990s was driven by information technology,” he said, highlighting

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