JAMMU: The 4th meeting of the In-House Advisory Committee for DBT supported M.Sc Biotechnology programme was held in the Committee Room at Chanakya Bhavan in the Central University of Jammu on 25th March 2026. The DBT-supported M.Sc Biotechnology programme is run by the Centre for Molecular Biology (CMB) at the CUJ. This project was sanctioned by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India in 2020 for five years and Prof. Mushtaq Ahmed, the founder Director of CMB was appointed as DBT programme Coordinator.
The students under DBT-supported M.Sc Biotechnology programme under this project are admitted based on the GAT-B score conducted by the NTA. Each student admitted under this programme is paid Rs. 5000 per month scholarship for the entire duration of two years. The CMB has mobilized around two crores extramural grant under this prestigious project. Apart from this project, the CMB has mobilized 5.00 crores as extramural funding from different funding agencies including DBT/ICMR/SERB/UGC and is determined to carry out cutting edge research and teaching and emerge as a Centre of Excellence in the frontier areas of Genetic Engineering, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics.
The 4th meeting of the In-House Advisory Committee was chaired by Prof. Sanjeev Jain, Honꞌble Vice Chancellor, CUJ. The meeting was attended by Prof. Amitabha Bandhopadhyay (DBT-nominee), IIT Kanpur, Prof. R.N.K. Bamezai, former Vice Chancellor, SMVDU, Prof. R.K. Salgotra, SKUAST Jammu, Mr. Anil Suri (Industrial expert), Dr. Ankit Rana (Skill expert) and all the faculty members of CMB. Prof. Mushtaq Ahmed, the DBT Programme Coordinator presented the annual progress report before the committee and highlighted the achievements of the project that was highly appreciated by the external experts. Prof. Ahmed apprised that the DBT has extended the Project upto academic session 2026-28 due to its satisfactory performance. Dr. Narendra Bairwa, Director, CMB proposed the vote of thanks.
