CHENNAI: The `150-crore Phase-II of TICEL Biotechnology Park will be ready by December 2011, said Additional Chief Secretary and Chairman and Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, Susan Mathew.After a presentation on the Park before a delegation from State of Maryland in United states, Mathew on Thursday said that 70 per cent of work has been completed in a built-up area of six lakh square feet. The building designed by Taamaesek Engineering Consultants would have 12-storeys.“Phase-II of the park will be operational by April 2012, and will be providing research and job opportunities for 1,500 scientists with a fresh investment of Rs 500 crores. We are expecting 100 per cent occupancy,” she added.The TICEL Biotech Park-I, built in technical collaboration with Cornell University, is in operation from 2004 and has 87 modules of labs established with complete infrastructure for biotech research and development. She also said TICEL is also establishing ‘Biotechnology Core Instrumentation Facility’ (BSCIF) in TICEL Biopark II with a state-of-the-art equipments for microbiology, molecular, fermentation, downstream processing, purification, analytical and animal cell culture facilities and training centre to provide scientific and incubation support to clients and biotech industries at a cost of `19.30 crore. It shall be completed by 2012, she said.Dr M D Nair, member of the board of directors, TICEL and Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee, said the Union government’s department of biotechnology has sanctioned `10.93 crore for equipment and `1 crore by the State Higher Education Department for training programmes in collaboration with the universities.
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