National Biodiversity Authority (NBA)

• Biodiversity Act, 2002 has created NBA and state biodiversity boards and biodiversity management committees.
• It is created to ensure fair and equitable benefi ts sharing that arise out of research on Indian biodiversity.
• Anyone seeking to obtain intellectual property rights to knowledge obtained out of research on biological resources has to obtain the permission of the NBA.
• NBA can impose conditions for approving the grant of approvals.
• It also advises state governments to denote certain natural sites as heritage sites.
• State biodiversity boards grant approval for bio-survey or bio-utilization or commercialisation of biological resources by Indians.
• At the local level, Biodiversity management committees are created for conservation, sustainable use, and documentation of biodiversity