PARLIAMENT QUESTION: Bio-RIDE SCHEME

• Bio-RIDE = Biotechnology Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development — a unified umbrella scheme of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology, merging two existing DBT umbrella schemes with a new biomanufacturing component.
• Designed to foster innovation, bio-entrepreneurship and position India as a global biomanufacturing & biotech hub; bridges the lab-to-market gap.
• Relevant for GS-III (S&T, economy) and Prelims (schemes & bodies — DBT, BIRAC, BioE3).