The Department of Biotechnology arranged an Institutional visit cum Educational tour for the final year students of B.Sc. Biotechnology to Munnar and Kochi, Kerala from 06.09.2023 to 09.09.2023. Tour was organized following the guidelines laid down by the office of the Joint Director of Collegiate Education, Vellore.
A total of 25 students were accompanied by two faculty members Dr. N.P.M Mohamed Tariq and Dr. N. Shabeer Ahmed along with one Non-Teaching staff Mr. A. Azmatullah.
Tour team spent the first day of their trip at Munnar. It is a hill station in Kerala, located in the Idukki district. Munnar rises as three mountain streams merge - Mudrapuzha, Nallathanni and Kundala. 1,600 m above sea level, this hill station was once the summer resort of the erstwhile British Government in South India.
All the students then visited the Marine Research Aquarium, which is a collection of marine ornamental fishes. Many rare marine ornamental fishes were maintained in a controlled environment.
Students were briefed about the ITMU, which is one method of intellectual property-protection technology in which patenting the several techniques, protocols, and technologies developed by CMFRI cannot be patented.
Students visited The Marine Biodiversity Museum where more than 2000 species of fishes, 410 species of crustaceans, more than 1000 species of molluscs and more than 1500 species of marine reptiles were preserved in the museum.
