Microbiology, Fermentation and Biotechnology Division of ICAR-CIFT has organized the SCSP training programme on “Advance microbiological and molecular techniques for improving the competence of students in Biological Sciences” from 05.12.2023 -11.12.2023. Sixteen students from various disciplines of life sciences such as Fisheries, Dairy Technology, Zoology, Microbiology and Biotechnology from three different states, namely Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh and Kerala attended the program. The seven days training programme gave detailed insights and hands-on work exposure to the students about the basic microbiological techniques to be carried out for the aquatic animal disease surveillance program, diagnosis of bacterial diseases through automated bacterial identification systems, nanotechnological approaches for bacterial control, AMR profiling, purification and quantification of bacterial DNA, molecular identification, 16SrRNA sequencing, DNA fingerprinting tools and bioinformatic analysis etc. The trainees were evaluated pre and post-training to assess the effectiveness of the training and received feedback from all the participants to improve the conduct of the training. The training programme was concluded on 11.12.2023 with an official valedictory function.