The Indian Biological Data Centre is being set up in which state?

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Correct — B, Haryana. India's first Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) — the country's national repository for life-science/biological data — was set up at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) in Faridabad, Haryana. It was dedicated in November 2022 by Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, with a disaster-recovery site at the National Informatics Centre, Bhubaneswar. It is a Department of Biotechnology initiative meant to archive biological data generated by Indian researchers.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Punjab does not host the IBDC; the centre is in Faridabad (Haryana), in the National Capital Region, at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology.  (c) Gujarat is a distractor — it hosts other national institutions but not the Indian Biological Data Centre, which is in Haryana.  (d) Uttar Pradesh is not the location; the IBDC's host, the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, is in Faridabad, Haryana (not UP).

Concept: The Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) is India's first national repository for the biological data generated by publicly-funded research — genomic, proteomic and other life-science datasets. Set up under the Department of Biotechnology, it aims to give Indian scientists an indigenous archive so they no longer have to rely solely on foreign databases.

State PCS 2023 Q91 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer

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