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Response to Indian Express’s misleading biased piece on GM mustard

Published By kavitha On Wednesday, February 10th 2016. Under Uncategorized    
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kavitha Kuruganti <kavitakuruganti@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 6:57 AM Subject: Harish Damodaran & Amitabh Sinha piece on GM mustard To: harish damodaran IE <harishdamodaran@hotmail.com>, amitabh.sinha@expressindia.com Cc: viveck.goenka@expressindia.com, prabhas.jha@expressindia.com, The Indian Express <editor@expressindia.com>, feedback@indianexpress.com Dear Harish Damodaran and Amitabh Sinha, You have written a piece recently (on February 8th 2016, titled GM Row Again, ... Continue Reading

On National Safe Food Day on Feb.9th, Coalition follows up with Shri Prakash Javadekar on his assurances.

Published By kavitha On Tuesday, February 9th 2016. Under Uncategorized    
To: Shri Prakash Javadekar, Minister for Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Government of India.   Dear Sir,   Sub: Meeting to discuss concerns with regard to transgenic technology and its regulation in India – reg.   Greetings! This is as a follow up to our meeting that emerged out of a citizens’ protest outside MoEFCC on February 5th 2016 when ... Continue Reading

Minister meets with protestors and assures no GM mustard approval without due processes: Delegation responds by saying that important regulatory changes MUST

Published By kavitha On Friday, February 5th 2016. Under Uncategorized    
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT IMPOSE UNNEEDED, UNWANTED & UNSAFE GMOs: SARSON SATYAGRAHA PROTESTS OUTSIDE MINISTRY New Delhi, February 4, 2016: The growing outrage across the country against the secretive manner in which the country's GM regulator within the Environment Ministry is trying to approve GM Mustard reached a new height with ... Continue Reading

Coalition’s Response to a casual invitation from GEAC

Published By Rajesh Krishnan On Friday, February 5th 2016. Under Biosafety, GM Crops, Regulatory Processes, Uncategorized    
Coalition’s Response to a casual invitation from GEAC
Dear Dr. Warrier, With reference to your email and phone call at late evening yesterday, we would like to say the following from the Coalition. (1) After several letters to the GEAC in the past few months on the GM mustard issue, this is the first time GEAC appears to have taken ... Continue Reading

Eminent Indian scientists write to Javadekar raising concerns on ongoing process to approve commercial cultivation of GM Mustard

Published By Rajesh Krishnan On Thursday, February 4th 2016. Under Biosafety, GM Crops, Regulatory Processes, Uncategorized    
Following the largest farmers groups objecting to the application for release of GM Mustard, more than 100 scientists (social scientists, agriculture scientists, biotechnologists, ecologists and other related disciplines) have asked the Minister for Environment , Forests & Climate Change not to proceed with the application for commercialisation of GM mustard. ... Continue Reading

Kerala Civil Society Slams Centre on GM Mustard Push

Published By kavitha On Wednesday, February 3rd 2016. Under Uncategorized    
STOP SECRET GM MUSTARD APPROVAL PROCESSES: GEAC MEETING SHOULD BE CALLED OFF CIVIL SOCIETY & FARMER GROUPS CALL GM MUSTARD HIGHLY DANGEROUS & OBJECTIONABLE EXPERIMENT ON PEOPLE & ENVIRONMENT Trivandrum, February 3rd, 2016: Slamming the Central Government for allowing regulators in the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change for scheduling a secret meeting ... Continue Reading

MAJOR FARMER UNIONS OF INDIA REJECT GM MUSTARD: ASK JAVADEKAR NOT TO ALLOW GEAC TO PROCEED WITH ITS SECRET MEETING TO PROCESS GM MUSTARD APPLICATION ON FEB.5TH

Published By kavitha On Wednesday, February 3rd 2016. Under Uncategorized    
New Delhi, February 3rd, 2016: All major farmer unions of India, in a joint statement, have slammed the Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change for allowing the regulatory body for transgenics to meet on February 5th to decide on the fate of GM mustard. They demanded that the secret meeting ... Continue Reading

GEAC meeting should be called off, demand citizens’ groups: Nationwide outrage against Centre’s GM mustard push

Published By kavitha On Wednesday, February 3rd 2016. Under Uncategorized    
New Delhi, February 3rd 2016: Widespread outrage was witnessed today from all quarters against the Centre continuing regulatory processes to commercialise GM mustard in India, even as state governments have also cautioned the Centre against proceeding further. The apex GM regulatory body, GEAC (Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee) in the Ministry of ... Continue Reading

Stop GM Mustard Application process – Give Coalition for GM-Free India a hearing

Published By kavitha On Monday, February 1st 2016. Under Uncategorized    
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "GM Free India" <indiagmfree@gmail.com> Date: 01-Feb-2016 4:42 pm Subject: Urgent - Stop GM Mustard Application process - Give Coalition for GM-Free India a hearing To: <hempande@nic.in>, <kveluthambi@rediffmail.com>, <bishwanath.sinha@nic.in>, <bnsinha@gov.in>, <crbabu26@gmail.com>, <crb26@hotmail.com>, <nppbg@pau.edu>, <kk.sinha@nic.in>, <srrao@dbt.nic.in>, <aptesk@barc.gov.in>, <kumarv@icmr.org.in>, <sonti@ccmb.res.in>, <dci@nic.in>, <vijendra_mishra@rediffmail.co>, <govilaop@sify.com>, <vvr_ento@iari.res.in>, <vvr3@vsnl.com>, <renee@ces.iisc.ernet.in>, <bpsrinivasan@yahoo.com>, <luther@sau.ac.in>, <hota@nic.in>, <mishraramakant@gmail.com> Cc: "Pushpa Mittra ... Continue Reading
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