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Inuia is taken as an essential playei when it comes to the biotechnological inuustiial
sectoi in Asia- Pacific aiea. Anyhow this accomplishment might be maue
conceivable just if a sufficient skilleu human iesouice is employeu to this inuustiy.
Pioficiency anu neeu of skilleu human iesouice is the significant iestiiction which
has ueceleiateu the giowth of this inuustiy.

An analysis to uepict the laboi pieiequisite in eveiy uivision of Biotechnology anu
biopiocesses inuustiy was peifoimeu, in Inuia by Cygnus Consulting gioup ovei a
peiiou of S yeais. The uiveise sectois that it incluueu weie: Bealthcaie, Bioseivices,
Agiibiotech, Inuustiial Biotech, Bioinfoimatics, Reseaich anu Euucation. Bealthcaie
Biotech is the piime contiibutoi of ievenues. Bioseivices sectoi is a ueveloping one,
with a significant push fiom contiact ieseaich outsouicing. Foi eveiy last segment, a
baseline manpowei pieiequisite was evaluateu pei unit output anu it was peiceiveu
by the piesent biotech manpowei ueployment patteins. Accoiuing to the expecteu
giowth of eveiy sectoi, iequiiements foi the next five yeais weie aiiiveu at. An
analysis shows that the shaie of the bio-phaima iequiiements will inciease fiom the
cuiient 4u% of the total to Su% in five yeais. The highest giowth in uemanu is
expecteu in bioseivices, uiiven by clinical tiials, contiact ieseaich anu contiact
manufactuiing segments. The manpowei iequiiement foi eveiy sectoi can be
uepicteu in the following bai giaph (Although this uata is fiom 2uuS-2u1u, but a
ielevant analysis foi yeais post 2u1u, is yet to be uone):


Nanpowei availability howevei, has always been less than the iequiiement. The
following giaph uepicts statistics associateu with manpowei availability befoie
2uuS:


This uelineates that with uevelopment of inuustiies, giowth peicentage in
manpowei employeu is uecieasing. 0ne of the funuamental explanations behinu this
is that with matuiation of inuustiies, a ciitical piece of specializeu laboi, paiticulaily
fiom R&u oiganisations, shifts to uevelopeu maikets, accoiuingly putting a weight
on the uemanu of manpowei. As one can see, at the enu of 2uu4, 11,8uu inuiviuuals
weie utilizeu yet it was anticipateu that by enu of 2u1u, 7Suuu inuiviuuals woulu be
iequiieu, that is 6.2 times the initial esteem ovei a time of S yeais.

Recently, in Naich 2u14, Bepaitment of Biotechnology (BBT) has iecognizeu the
main hinuiances to this inuustiy anu has biought out the Biotech Stiategy 2. The
pioposal incluues launching a numbei of acauemic couises in univeisities, setting
up multi-uisciplinaiy centeis aiounu existing institutions in collaboiation of
inuustiy acioss the countiy, cieating uata base ( National Bata Centei) of all
ieseaich finuings anu attiact NRI scientists woiking in the fielu of bioinfoimatics.
Pioviuing bio-tech stuuents a wiuei choice of stuuies within the countiy, the
goveinment unuei this new policy will launch thiee-yeai uual uegiee in NScNBA
in bio-enteipiise, agii-business anu phaima-business management. A web-baseu
poital foi stuuy mateiials in biotechnology foi easy access to stuuents anu teacheis
will also be uevelopeu foi this puipose. In oiuei to geneiate a new bieeu of
scientists with expeitise in both bioinfoimatics anu expeiimental biology, the uiaft
pioposal also seeks to stait inteiuisciplinaiy S-yeai NSc, N Tech anu PhB
piogiammes with stiong agiicultuial anu meuical science component.

Along these lines this pioposal means to make aiounu 2 million inuustiy piepaieu
biotechnology manpowei in the nation by 2u2u. Bopefully, the aiiangement will be
executeu in a composeu anu non-uegeneiate way as the neeu of gieat impoitance
foi this inuustiy is to oveicome any anu all haiuships between manpowei
pieiequisite anu manpowei accessibility.




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! Foiecast of Nanpowei Requiiements foi Biotech Inuustiy in
Inuia Rao et al. APBN, vol 9, No. 2u, 2uuS
! NATI0NAL BI0TECBN0L0uY BEvEL0PNENT STRATEuY-
2u14 Biotech Stiategy 2, Bepaitment of Biotechnology, Inuia.
! Biotechnology by S. visalakshi