Tata Sons to commercialise indigenously developed testing kit 'Feluda'

Paper Strip test can be useful tool for mass scale testing for ease of use and affordability

As India prepares to relax curbs around movement and manufacturing and ease the Covid-19 lockown, Tata Sons is gearing up to commercially produce an indigenously developed rapid testing kit using a cutting edge technology that can be useful for mass testing. Developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) scientists and named after the famous Bengali fictional sleuth 'Feluda', the kit is going to be ready for use on ground by the end of this month.
 

The Feluda test strip, basically a paper based test strip, has been developed by a team led by two Bengali scientists. Souvik