THE REGIONAL CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY ACT, 2016
An Act to provide for the establishment of an institution of national importance to be known
as Regional Centre for Biotechnology and to provide for matters connected therewith or
incidental thereto.
WHEREAS an agreement for the establishment and operation of the Regional Centre for
Biotechnology Training and Education in India was entered into between the Government of India and
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation on the 14th day of July, 2006;
AND WHEREAS in pursuance of the said agreement, the Central Government through an executive
order dated the 20th April, 2009, established the Regional Centre for Biotechnology Training and
Education at Faridabad, Haryana;
AND WHEREAS it is expedient to make provisions for strengthening and to make the Regional Centre
for Biotechnology an institution of national importance for imparting education, training and conducting
research in the areas of Biotechnology and related multi disciplinary areas.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:--
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