The Indian Biological Data Centre is being set up in which state?
- (a)Punjab
- (b)Haryana
- (c)Gujarat
- (d)Uttar Pradesh
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.
- (a)Punjab — 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 — Gujarat is a distractor — it hosts other national institutions but not the Indian Biological Data Centre, which is in Haryana.
- (d)Uttar Pradesh — Uttar Pradesh is not the location; the IBDC's host, the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, is in Faridabad, Haryana (not UP).
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.
This is a current-affairs GK item — the reasoning is simply to recall where the IBDC was inaugurated (late 2022). The trap is that several states host national biotech/data institutions, but the IBDC specifically is at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad.
- IBDC is housed at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad, Haryana.
- It is India's first national repository for biological/life-science data.
- Dedicated in November 2022 by Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh.
- A disaster-recovery data site is maintained at NIC, Bhubaneswar.
- Confusing the IBDC's location with other states that host biotech institutes
- Assuming a 'national' centre must be in Delhi/UP rather than Haryana (NCR)
UPPSC/UPSC test the host state or city of newly-launched national institutions and missions as one-line current-affairs GK.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) functions under which Union ministry/department?
- (a)Department of Biotechnology
- (b)Department of Space
- (c)Ministry of Earth Sciences
- (d)Department of Atomic Energy
Answer(a) Department of Biotechnology — the IBDC is a DBT initiative at RCB, Faridabad.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Indian Biological Data Centre is hosted on the campus of which institution?
- (a)National Institute of Immunology
- (b)Regional Centre for Biotechnology
- (c)Indian Institute of Science
- (d)National Centre for Biological Sciences
Answer(b) Regional Centre for Biotechnology — located at Faridabad, Haryana.