Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Monday inaugurated the BioNEST Incubator at north India's first industrial biotech park in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, terming it the beginning of a new era of scientific enterprise and economic transformation.
With around 11,000 startups in India’s biotech sector and 25 new startups being incubated at the Kathua Biotech Park, the region is poised to become a harbinger of prosperity and innovation, Singh pointed out.
Calling it a landmark development, he said, "This is a day that Kathua and the entire Jammu region will remember as the beginning of a new era of scientific enterprise and economic transformation".