Shah lays stone for first state-run BSL-4 lab in Gandhinagar

Gandhinagar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, has laid the foundation stone for Gujarat's first ultra-modern Bio-Safety Level-4 (BSL-4) bio-containment laboratory and an Animal Bio-Safety facility in Gandhinagar, his parliamentary constituency.

Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and State Science and Technology Minister Arjun Modhwadia were present at the ceremony.

The project, to be built at a cost of Rs 362 crore, will become the country's first BSL-4 lab operated by a state government and only the second such high-containment facility in India after Pune.

During the event, the Union Department of Biotechnology handed over a Letter of Intent designating the upcoming BSL-4 lab at the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre as the "National Centre for High Containment Pathogen Research Facility" under the BioE3 policy.