Paralleling the Arctic Seed Vault the ICAR and DRDO have established an Indian seed vault to protect...........

Explanation:

India’s seed vault is located in Chang La (Ladakh) in the Himalayas, at a height of 17,300 feet. There is a storage facility with over 5,000 seed accessions.
The vault is a joint venture of the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (which comes under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research) and the Defence Institute of High Altitude Research (under Defence Research and Development Organisation).
Learning: Norway has announced it will spend 100 million Norwegian crowns, or $13 million, to make improvements to a special seed vault in the Arctic.
It has the ability to hold about 2.5 billion seeds in total.
The Norwegian government built the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2008 to store seed samples of the world’s crops and plants.
The vault serves as a natural deep freeze, and is meant to protect important genetic material in case of a major man-made or natural disaster.
The loss of crop diversity and the vulnerability of existing seed collections in various seed/gene banks gave birth to the idea in of establishing a back-up seed facility in Svalbard.
Depositors retain ownership rights over the seeds sent to the facility. The boxes with seeds are sealed by the depositors and are not distributed to or given access to by anyone other than the depositors.
The cold climate and permafrost of Svalbard make the area a perfect location for underground cold storage.
The surrounding sandstone is stable for building and is low in radiation.
In terms of security, Svalbard scores high marks compared to the locations of many other gene banks in the world

The vault is located an extraordinary 120 meters into the rock, ensuring that the vault rooms will remain naturally frozen even in the event of failure of the mechanical cooling system and rising external air temperatures due to climate change.