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Detailed explanation-1: -Jitendra Singh today said that Kathua is, because of its resource richness with diversity as well as its geographical location, destined to be North India’s StartUp destination. The Union Minister said this after inaugurating North India’s first Industrial Biotech Park Ghatti, Kathua, Jammu along with Shri.

Detailed explanation-2: -NEW DELHI: Union science and technology minister Jitendra Singh inaugurated north India’s first industrial biotech park at Kathua in Jammu on Saturday.

Detailed explanation-3: -The state’s apex industrial development organization, Rajasthan State Industrial Development & Investment Corporation (RIICO), would develop three biotech parks at Sitapura in Jaipur, Boranada in Jodhpur and Sotanala on national highway-8 near Behror (Alwar), sources informed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Biotech Park at Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh is the first technology incubator. This has been set up jointly as a partnership between Central and State governments i.e. the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology and Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Biotech Park, Ghatti, offers facilities like herbal extraction, fermentation, analytical lab., distillation, micro-propagation, plant tissue culture, besides provision of technology incubation, training & skill development.