MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

23.06.2012

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

REGIONAL CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY

 

 

Registered Office :

180, Udyog Vihar, Phase I, Gurgaon – 122016, Haryana

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Year of Establishment :

2009

 

 

Capital Investment / Paid-up Capital :

Not Divulged

 

 

Legal Form :

Government Organisation

 

 

Line of Business :

The Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) is a newly established institution of education, training and research in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India under an agreement with UNESCO.

·         Biomedical Science

·         Bioengineering and Devices

·         Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences

·         Climate science, agriculture and environment

·         Biotechnology Regulatory Affairs, IPR and Policy

 

 

No. of Employees :

50 (Approximately)

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

A (63)

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

Fairly Large

 

Status :

Excellent

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Subject is an established Institution of Education, Training and Research by the Department of Biotechnology. It is a Government of India company and associated with UNESCO. It focuses on biotechnology growth in the Asia-Pacific region.

 

Due to the nature of its operations, the financial details are not made available.

 

The company can be considered good for business dealings at usual trade terms and conditions.

 

NOTES :

Any query related to this report can be made on e-mail : infodept@mirainform.com while quoting report number, name and date.

 

ECGC Country Risk Classification List – September 30, 2011

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(30.06.2011)

Current Rating

(30.09.2011)

India

A1

A1

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 

 

INFORMATION PARTED BY (GENERAL DETAILS)

 

Name :

Mr. Vashist

Designation :

Manager

Contact No.:

91-124-2848800

Date :

20.06.2012

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office :

180, Udyog Vihar, Phase I, Gurgaon – 122016, Haryana, India

Tel. No.:

91-124-2848800

Website :

http://www.rcb.res.in/  

 

 

Branches :

Located at:

Faridabad (under constriction)

 

 

MANAGEMENT 

 

FACULTY

 

Name

Prasenjit Guchhait

 

 

Name :

Sivaram V S Mylavarapu

 

 

Name :

Avinash Bajaj

 

 

Name :

K Vengadesan

 

 

Name :

Tushar K Maiti

 

 

Name :

Chittur V Srikanth

 

 

ADJUNCT FACULTY

 

Name :

Falguni Sen

 

 

YOUNG INVESTIGATORS

 

Name :

Jasmita Gill

 

 

Name :

Alka Dwevedi

 

 

Name :

Sharmishtha Samantaray

 

 

Name :

Ashima Bagaria

 

 

Name :

Smriti Verma

 

 

Name :

Sushmita Bhattacharya

 

 

Name :

Kuppuswamy Panjamurthy

 

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

The Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) is a newly established institution of education, training and research in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India under an agreement with UNESCO.

·         Biomedical Science

·         Bioengineering and Devices

·         Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences

·         Climate science, agriculture and environment

·         Biotechnology Regulatory Affairs, IPR and Policy

 

 

Terms :

 

Selling :

Cash, Credit 

 

 

Purchasing :

Cash, Credit 

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Customers :

End Users

 

 

No. of Employees :

50 (Approximately)

 

 

Student :

13 (Approximately)

 

 

Bankers :

State Bank of India, Gurgaon – 122016

 

 

Facilities :

--

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

--

 

 

Associates/Subsidiaries :

NA

 

 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

NOT DIVULGED

 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

NOT DIVULGED

 

Note : Sole Proprietory and Partnership concerns are exempted from filing their financials with the Government Authorities or Registry.

 

 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

Check List by Info Agents

Available in Report (Yes / No)

1) Year of Establishment

 Yes

2) Locality of the firm

Yes

3) Constitutions of the firm

Yes

4) Premises details

No

5) Type of Business

 Yes

6) Line of Business

Yes

7) Promoter's background

--

8) No. of employees

 Yes

9) Name of person contacted

Yes

10) Designation of contact person

Yes

11) Turnover of firm for last three years

No

12) Profitability for last three years

No

13) Reasons for variation <> 20%

 --

14) Estimation for coming financial year

No

15) Capital in the business

No

16) Details of sister concerns

No

17) Major suppliers

No

18) Major customers

No

19) Payments terms

Yes

20) Export / Import details (if applicable)

No

21) Market information

 --

22) Litigations that the firm / promoter involved in

--

23) Banking Details

Yes

24) Banking facility details

No

25) Conduct of the banking account

 --

26) Buyer visit details

 --

27) Financials, if provided

No

28) Incorporation details, if applicable

 --

29) Last accounts filed at ROC

 --

30) Major Shareholders, if available

 --

 

WEBSITE DETAILS:

 

The Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) is a newly established institution of education, training and research in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India under an agreement with UNESCO. RCB is designed to be a centre of excellence in biotechnology with intimate contributions from the countries of the region and academic institutions from the rest of the world. It provides a meeting place where innovation, enterprise, and industrial development will germinate. This Centre would be beneficial to all countries in the region including India in carrying out biotechnology research of highest caliber and developing knowledge-rich highly skilled human resource. Biotechnology being essentially global, the partnerships are as much within as across countries. Association with UNESCO essentially expands the opportunities to create world class education and research and provides seeds of global cooperation.

 

Who they are

 

Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), an institution of education, training and research is established by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India under the auspices of UNESCO. The Centre will focus on cooperatively working towards shared biotechnology growth in the Asia-Pacific Region. Regional interactions in biotechnology will promote co-operation amongst the countries to develop necessary infrastructure and capacity building for economic benefit of their societies. The Centre would be beneficial in developing knowledge rich, highly skilled human resource to all countries in the region. RCB will be part of the Biotech Science Cluster (BSC) and will operate in synergy with the other institutions in the Cluster.

 

Mandate of the Centre is to provide a platform for biotechnology education, training and research at the interface of multiple disciplines. The programmes of the Centre will be designed to create opportunities for students to engage in multi-disciplinary research where they learn biotech science while integrating engineering, medicine and science, to provide solutions for human and animal health, agriculture and environment technologies. 

 

Interim Laboratories

 

The interim laboratories of the Centre have been set up within the National Capital Region (NCR) Delhi in a 20,000 sq ft building at 180, Udyog Vihar Phase I, Gurgaon (Haryana) adjacent to the South Delhi area.
 

Permanent Campus

 

The permanent campus of the Centre is coming up within the Biotech Science Cluster (BSC) on a 200 acre plot of land, at Faridabad in the National Capital Region. The Cluster will facilitate synergizing high value resources and infrastructure, coordinated development and maximize societal benefits.

  

Major activities planned

 

The Centre will carry out and promote multi-disciplinary innovative research in biotech sciences. Contemporary research at the interface of disciplines with integration of science, engineering and medicine and emphasis on the relevance to the regional societies is being undertaken. Broad range of areas synergizing with biotech science will be pursued:

·         Biomedical Science

·         Bioengineering and Devices

·         Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences

·         Climate science, agriculture and environment

·         Biotechnology Regulatory Affairs, IPR and Policy

Biomedical Science is a continually changing and dynamic subject and is therefore enormously challenging and involves analyses of life processes to gain an understanding of health and the methods for diagnosing, analyzing and treating diseases. Areas within the above domains being currently initiated include analyses of complex diseases for identification of intervention points and development of knowledge-based drug discovery approaches. Application of the principles of engineering and natural sciences to tissues, cells and molecules could be described as Bioengineering and is closely linked with modern biotechnology. It advances knowledge from the molecular to the organ systems level and aids in the development of innovative biologics, materials, devices and informatics approaches for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease as well as improvement of crops and quality of the biosphere. Nanoscience for biotechnology, wherein the emphasis would be on design of novel nano-devices for bio-sensing, diagnostic and therapeutic utility would be among the priority areas. Biochemical and Biophysical studies at the molecular and cellular level and as part of systems biology foster progress in comprehending the mechanisms underlying the control of cellular physiological processes and the consequences of its perturbation. Climate change, agriculture and environment are interrelated processes taking place on a global scale. Integration of climate models with design strategies for transgenic crops and environmental impact of climate change using mathematical as well as physical approaches are also being envisioned to be priority areas. A major aspect of biotech revolution concerns addressing regulatory and IPR issues as well as policy analyses. The inter-relationship of policy and IPR exists along with every aspect of biology and therefore this domain will grow synergistically along with other multidisciplinary areas. 
 

Academic Programmes

 

The design and processes of the education at this Centre will be such that it will generate technology savvy solution finders/creators; science entrepreneurs/knowledge economy entrepreneurs and research and development leaders. 


Interdisciplinary Ph D programme of the Regional Centre for Biotechnology aims at producing a highly specialized cadre of scientists capable of translating laboratory research to clinical practice with detailed knowledge of both medicine and practice of scientific investigations. The goal of this interdisciplinary Ph D programme is to educate students at the interface of engineering, physical sciences and the biomedical sciences via a flexible structure that permits explorations at the intersections of these disciplines. 


Post-doctoral programmes for the young scientists below the age of 35 are being developed, in the areas of active interest at the Centre, for mentoring talent towards the leadership role in biotech science. 


The center will be open to industry for enhancing their skills in specific areas. Domain-specific programmes will also be designed for people from basic sciences in nanotechnology, implants and devices, vaccine development and stem cell biology in order to create a cadre of highly specialized scientists for technology development in these areas. Interdisciplinary education and training programme at the Centre will be constantly evolving, and will be a source of new ideas and methods in teaching in biotechnology. 


An important focus of expertise building will be regulation, product development, scale up, manufacturing science and bio-entrepreneurship. The Centre will also provide user friendly opportunities for career development and will also be open to industry for enhancing their skills in specific areas required for career advancement. The Centre will have adequate infrastructure for scale-up and process engineering. 

 

 PRESS RELEASES

 

Department of Science and Technology

UNESCO Regional Centre for Biotechnology

 

The Government of India and the UNESCO fully realizing the need of training and education for generating interdisciplinary human resource relevant to biotechnology, took a joint decision to establish the Regional Centre for research, training and education in biotechnology under the auspices of UNESCO. Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Shri Kapil Sibal today announced the setting up of UNESCO Regional Centre for Biotechnology at its first meeting of the Board of Governors held in New Delhi. The centre will come up in Faridabad, Haryana by next year.

 

Interacting with the media on the occasion, Shri Sibal said that the Centre would be beneficial to all countries in the region including India in developing knowledge-rich highly skilled human resource, harmonization of policies and procedures in biotechnology and indirectly promoting trade. Biotechnology being essentially global, the partnerships are as much within as across countries. The Centre will create a place from which many such partnerships will emerge. A Centre of education, training and research in biotechnology with intimate contributions from the countries of the region and academic institutions from the rest of the world and provides a meeting place where innovation, enterprise, and industrial development will germinate.

 

Secretary, DBT, Dr. Bhan said that the primary focus of the UNESCO Regional Center for Biotechnology is to provide high quality human resource of an interdisciplinary nature and in areas of acute shortage. As education and training of world class quality requires a research milieu, the research in the proposed center will also be an interface of multiple disciplines and focused on technology development. He said that the educational programmes of the UNESCO Centre are designed to create opportunities for students to engage in research where they learn the tools by integrating science, engineering and medicine to provide health care solutions for human and animal sector, for agriculture and environment technologies.

 

Mr. M. Barbosa, Deputy Director General, UNESCO and Smt. Bhaswati Mukherjee, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO also spoke on the occasion.

 

The unique activities at the Centre will include Science and Technology expertise building for physicians intending to enter biology; short term medicine exposure to biologists and engineers by networking through local hospitals/ medical schools and short term training in platform technologies for skill development in existing personnel. Specialized domain-specific programmes will also be created in new opportunity areas such as Cell and Tissue Engineering, Nano and biosciences, synergy of information technology and advanced biomaterials to create a cadre of highly specialized people who integrate across disciplines. An important focus of expertise building will be regulation, product development, scale up, manufacturing science and bio-entrepreneurship. The Centre will also provide user friendly opportunities for career development and will also be open to industry for enhancing their skills in specific areas required for career advancement. The Centre will have adequate infrastructure for scale-up and process engineering.

 

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt of India has decided to set up a unique Health Biotech Science Cluster (HBSC) at Faridabad on a 200 acre plot of land in the National Capital Region (NCR) and will co-locate the UNESCO Regional Centre for Biotechnology (URCB) and the Translational Health Science Technology Institute (THSTI). A number of other related Centres to be co-located at the cluster are at conceptual stage. The Cluster will facilitate synergizing high value resources and infrastructure, coordinated development and maximize societal benefits.

 

The Mandate of the UNESCO Regional Centre for Biotechnology is to provide a platform for interdisciplinary research, education and training in order to create human resources required at the biotech interface of engineering, chemistry, physics and medicine and to empower human resources critical for a wide range of biotech needs and to seek knowledge-based innovative and context-specific biotechnology solutions

 

The design and processes of the education at this Centre will be such that it will generate technology savvy solution finders/creators; science entrepreneurs/ knowledge economy entrepreneurs and R and D leaders.

 

Interdisciplinary Ph. D. programme of the UNESCO Regional Centre for Biotechnology aims at producing a highly specialized cadre of scientists capable of translating laboratory research to clinical practice with detailed knowledge of both medicine and practice of scientific investigations. The goal of this interdisciplinary Ph.D. programme is to educate students at the interface of engineering, physical sciences and the biomedical sciences via a flexible structure that permits explorations at the intersections of these disciplines.

 

The center will be open to industry for enhancing their skills in specific areas. Domain-specific programmes will also be designed for people from basic sciences in nanotechnology, implants and devices, vaccine development and stem cell biology in order to create a cadre of highly specialized scientists for technology development in these areas.

 

The Centre will be able to produce highly trained and skilled human resource in interdisciplinary areas of biotechnology, and a new cadre of professionals with expertise in relevant areas, enabling them towards delivery of low cost, effective and penetrative technologies in health care, agriculture and veterinary sciences. The centre’s success in delivering the objectives will need vital support from states of the region and UNESCO’s support in terms of both finances and programme development. 

 

 


CMT REPORT (Corruption, Money Laundering & Terrorism]

 

The Public Notice information has been collected from various sources including but not limited to: The Courts, India Prisons Service, Interpol, etc.

 

1]         INFORMATION ON DESIGNATED PARTY

No records exist designating subject or any of its beneficial owners, controlling shareholders or senior officers as terrorist or terrorist organization or whom notice had been received that all financial transactions involving their assets have been blocked or convicted, found guilty or against whom a judgement or order had been entered in a proceedings for violating money-laundering, anti-corruption or bribery or international economic or anti-terrorism sanction laws or whose assets were seized, blocked, frozen or ordered forfeited for violation of money laundering or international anti-terrorism laws.

 

2]         Court Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that subject is or was the subject of any formal or informal allegations, prosecutions or other official proceeding for making any prohibited payments or other improper payments to government officials for engaging in prohibited transactions or with designated parties.

 

3]         Asset Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that the property or assets of the subject are derived from criminal conduct or a prohibited transaction.

 

4]         Record on Financial Crime :

            Charges or conviction registered against subject:                                                  None

 

5]         Records on Violation of Anti-Corruption Laws :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

6]         Records on Int’l Anti-Money Laundering Laws/Standards :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

7]         Criminal Records

No available information exist that suggest that subject or any of its principals have been formally charged or convicted by a competent governmental authority for any financial crime or under any formal investigation by a competent government authority for any violation of anti-corruption laws or international anti-money laundering laws or standard.

 

8]         Affiliation with Government :

No record exists to suggest that any director or indirect owners, controlling shareholders, director, officer or employee of the company is a government official or a family member or close business associate of a Government official.

 

9]         Compensation Package :

Our market survey revealed that the amount of compensation sought by the subject is fair and reasonable and comparable to compensation paid to others for similar services.

 

10]        Press Report :

            No press reports / filings exists on the subject.

 

 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

MIRA INFORM as part of its Due Diligence do provide comments on Corporate Governance to identify management and governance. These factors often have been predictive and in some cases have created vulnerabilities to credit deterioration.

 

Our Governance Assessment focuses principally on the interactions between a company’s management, its Board of Directors, Shareholders and other financial stakeholders.

 

 

CONTRAVENTION

 

Subject is not known to have contravened any existing local laws, regulations or policies that prohibit, restrict or otherwise affect the terms and conditions that could be included in the agreement with the subject.

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.56.99

UK Pound

1

Rs.88.97

Euro

1

Rs.71.57

 

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Report Prepared by :

SDA


 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

5

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

7

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

8

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

8

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

7

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

7

--LEVERAGE

1~10

7

--RESERVES

1~10

7

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

7

--MARGINS

-5~5

--

DEMERIT POINTS

 

 

--BANK CHARGES

YES/NO

YES

--LITIGATION

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER ADVERSE INFORMATION

YES/NO

NO

MERIT POINTS

 

 

--SOLE DISTRIBUTORSHIP

YES/NO

NO

--EXPORT ACTIVITIES

YES/NO

YES

--AFFILIATION

YES/NO

YES

--LISTED

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

63

 

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 


 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

-

NB

                                       New Business

-

 

 

 

 

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