India, Jan. 13 -- image credit- freepik

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of BSL-4 Bio-Containment Facility, at Gujarat Biotechnology Research Center in Gandhinagar,Gujarat. Several dignitaries including Chief Minister of Gujarat, Bhupendra Patel and Deputy Chief Minister HarshSanghvi were present on the occasion.

Amit Shah said that this will be India's second high-level lab after the Virology Institute in Pune. But this is the first lab being built by a state government,the credit for which goes to Gujarat. A huge complexwith an area of 11,000 square meters at acost ofRs 362 crore isgoing to be a strong fortress of biological security of the country. He said that we were lagging behin...