Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah, lays the foundation stone of the BSL-4 Bio-Containment Facility of the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre in Gandhinagar

• Foundation stone of a Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) Bio-Containment Facility laid at the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC), Gandhinagar by Union Home & Cooperation Minister Amit Shah.
• Will be India's second BSL-4 lab (after ICMR-NIV Pune) and the first set up by a state government.
• Strategically relevant to biosecurity, pandemic preparedness, One Health and self-reliance in handling Risk Group-4 pathogens.