The Department of Biotechnology, under the Ministry of Science and Technology, on Thursday launched India’s first mega consortium on ‘One Health’. The ‘One Health’ project was launched by Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, DBT through video conferencing.
The Consortium is comprised of 27 organizations and will be led by the DBT-National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad.
The ‘One Health’ is “where man, animal, plants, and environment are considered complementary to each other for maintaining ‘health of all”.
