The challenge before the proposed National Innovation Council (NIC) on biodiversity is to ensure a balance between conservation and economic development, National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) chairman Balakrishna Pisupati said here Sunday. R. Chidambaram, principal science advisor to the prime minister, said that a National Biodiversity Grid would be set up to facilitate and support the work of the NBA in collating, analysing and synthesis of biodiversity data and information for conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity. Read More