NDRI Karnal Added two new courses this year-The National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) (deemed university) has started two new UG courses, the session for these courses are likely to start this October, officials said on Monday.
The counselling for these courses started for BTech in biotechnology and BTech in food technology, with 20 seats in each course.
The seats in its popular course BTech Dairy Technology has been increased from 40 to 60 as mentionedDr Dheer Singh, director of the institute and vice-chancellor.
Out of the 60 dairy technology seats, 20 will be sent to our Bengaluru campus. The session for all the new courses will begin by October. With this the number of degree courses rise to total 27, including 12 for PhD. We are also making efforts to begin exit and later entry system in the courses as well as certificate courses. Overall we are gradually implementing National Education Policy (NEP) at NDRI,” Dr Singh said.
NDRI Karnal Added two new courses this year
Mode of Admission
The admissions to B.Tech. (DT) programme are done through an All India Combined Entrance Examination CUET UG. The subjects for the entrance examination are physics, chemistry and mathematics. The syllabus for these subjects is of 10+2 standard. The candidates are selected for admission on the basis of the merit in the combined examination and counseling. The common rank candidates merit will be decided on the basis of marks/grade obtained in the previous qualifying examination. In case the marks obtained in the previous qualifying examination is same then the merit order will be decided on the basis of date of birth, candidates seniority in age will be given upper rank accordingly.
NDRI develops BLG-gene-edited embryos
NDRI landmark advancement in animal biotechnology. It has successfully developed CRISPRA Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) gene-edited embryos targeting the β-lactoglobulin (BLG) gene. director said.
This pioneering research is featured in the scientific reports, a journal within the nature group, Singh said.
BLG role
He briefs about the role of BLG technology-The BLG gene is crucial in the composition of milk, particularly influencing its interaction with other milk proteins and causing allergies in humans. Notably, this protein is absent in human milk, and approximately 3% of newborns globally suffer from allergies related to bovine milk due to the presence of BLG. By editing this gene, ICAR-NDRI aims to reduce allergenicity and enhance the nutritional profile of milk to develop more health-conscious dairy products,” he added.
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