Research centre plan in crisis Statesman News Service KOLKATA Sept 5: The initiative taken by the Bengal Tuberculosis Association (BTA), a voluntary organisation, to set up a few more research centres along with advanced pathological laboratories for diagnosis of tuberculosis, has run into rough weather owing to paucity of funds from the international funding agencies. The members of the association claimed that although they had applied for funding and submitted the documents within the stipulated period, it was rejected on the grounds that there was no representation from the state in the Country Co-ordination Management Committee (CCM) at Delhi. Dr Parul Chakraborty, a researcher associated with Bengal Tuberculosis Association said: