12 crores for IIT-Kanpur!

Arun Shourie, sitting member of the Rajya Sabha spent his allocated Rs. 12 crores on setting up a Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur). A swanky new center which boasts an energy-saving building and expert faculty comprising Indians recruited from around the world! The center is already conducting research in DNA sequencing, tissue restructuring (which involves creating artificial human skin), bioinformatics and computational biology. Now that's money well spent!