??? There is, as on date, only one international depository authority (IDA) in the country at the Microbial Type Culture Collection (MTCC) at IMTECH, Chandigarh; however, for securing our IPR interests, we need to initiate steps to establish a few more centres as IDAs.??? Currently, MTCC does not accept biological materials such as cell lines, cyanobacteria, viruses etc. as it has no expertise or