The Government announced a feasibility study on the growth potential of read in the bio-informatics sector. The work is carried out by Ernst and Young and conclude within six months, Mr. Kamal Kant Jaiswal, IT Secretary-General said.

He said there is a large gap in supply and demand for professionals in bio-informatics and demand linked to 77000 over a period of three years. “The number of specialists churned by educational institutions in the country is so small and plans were designed for capacity-building professionals,” he said.

He said that the government focuses on a limited number of centers such as the University of Pune, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology for professionals.

Addressing a meeting in symbiosis Institute of Management Studies on “the potential of Pune on the knowledge capital of India”, organised by TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), he talked about DNA / Bioinformatics - Park project was initiated by the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the Government of India, to facilitate the export of Bio-IT-solutions and investment Foreign direct in the field of information technology and Health Sciences.

The project includes the development of one or more parks under Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) of the IT system to issues related to health science industry. In addition, he noted that it is also trying to promote India as global hub for IT solutions (products and services) in health sciences by the industry and enables companies to move in the value added chain of access to world-class bio-informatics infrastructure and services.

Mr. Jaiswal noted that the three essential resources for bio-computing research efforts included the storage of data, including communication and bandwidth resources.

Without these conditions, the proposed park would be available to schools in high-end computing, software development, laboratory studies wet, education and residency training, resource centres and the National Apartment placement service and leisure.

He said that DNA-Park would also with the requirements critical to productivity and laboratory “time to market” in research and development and operating expenses (F & E) environment. This would allow the exchange and sharing of information on global resources, while respecting security, adding new data sources without new software development or the full implementation of the resolution, etc.

He said that partners in this project would have said, governments and private enterprises anchor tenants.

Mr. Jaiswal noted that the entire world market for the size of bioinformatics solutions is linked to $ 25 billion and growing by 20 per cent per annum.

In India, the market is linked to $ 15 million and is expected to grow to $ 120 million in 2006. He added that overall IT companies focus on expanding opportunity and competition to provide unique solutions for bio-informatics.