Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh inaugurated the National Centre for Marine Bio-Diversity (NCMB), the first institution of its kind in India, in Jamnagar, on Wednesday.
It will also be the first Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) project with Reliance Industry, which has the world’s largest grassroots level petroleum refinery here. “A Rs. 30-crore start-up fund has been allocated for the centre. MoEF will contribute Rs. 20 crore and the rest will come from Reliance Industry. It’s been made a Public-Private-Partnership project so that it can be made a centre for excellence of the international level. The support of private firm has been taken to bring in the best talent and scientists required for the centre,” said Jairam.
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