varanasi the development and advances in biotechnology promises solution to the emerging challenges in the society and also has potential for public welfare stated pc trivedi vicechancellor of gorakhpur university while delivering the first professor hariharnath tripathi memorial lecture in banaras hindu university on thursday stating that biotechnology has solution for emerging challenges in the 21st century including food crisis shortage of safe drinking water depletion of oil reserve and damage of nature trivedi who is also the president of indian science congress maintained that infrastructural development increased food production human resource development research and development technology transfer and publicprivate partnership are capable to give momentum to development in this century he highlighted the potential of biotechnology in agricultural production enhanced industrial production medical sciences and other fields former director itbhu kp singh was the chief guest and former vc chhatrapati sahuji maharaj medical university lucknow saroj churamani gopal was the guest of honour