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| SKUAST's vaccine against animal disease nowhere | | Despite spending Rs 3 crore | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 6: The Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences (SKUAST) had developed a vaccine against foot-rot disease, which is found in sheep, after spending crores in 2014, but shockingly it failed to make it available in the market.
Sources told Early Times that in a sheer display of SKUAST's pathetic attitude to handle projects can be gauged from the fact that it was assigned a project to develop vaccine against the virulent foot-rot disease along with another project under the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) in collaboration with other universities in 2009.
"These projects of Council for Agricultural Research were to be executed at a cost of Rs 3 cr and were to be completed in 2014 with the development of a vaccine against the disease. But after the development of vaccine, the required scaling up of production for making the vaccine available to end users was not done by the university," sources said.
They said that to safeguard the Intellectual Property (IP) of the project and for commercialization of the vaccine, the SKUAST approached the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Uttar Pradesh in 2015, which sought a checklist for patent filing and to fix license fee for technology commercialization.
"Although a committee was constituted to take follow up action in 2015, there was no progress as of now. The SKUAST put the blame on Sheep Husbandry Department," sources said, adding that they had approached the university for list of equipment for scaling up the vaccine and a Memorandum of Understanding with a private company was in 2017 for manufacture of the vaccine developed by the university. |
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