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On July 18th 2016, a 8-member delegation consisting of Yudhvir Singh, Rampal Jat, Dr Sharad Pawar, Dr Debal Deb, Kapil Shah, Rajesh Krishnan, Ananthoo and Kavitha Kuruganti made detailed presentations of their objections against and concerns with regard to GM mustard of Delhi University's CGMCP. The GEAC, with Ms Amita ... Continue Reading

New Delhi, July 18, 2016: Avowing to step up their resistance against any possible approval of GM mustard in India, farm activists, scientists and others who made detailed presentations to GEAC today in a specially convened meeting of the regulatory body, presented fresh evidence to drive home their point about ... Continue Reading

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kavitha Kuruganti <kavitha_kuruganti@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:38 PM Subject: After inviting a "team" for a "discussion", GEAC chooses not to listen to independent scientists, farmer leaders and consumer activists To: PRAKASH JAVADEKAR <pjavadekar@gmail.com> Cc: "kveluthambi@rediffmail.com" <kveluthambi@rediffmail.com>, "bishwanath.sinha@nic.in" <bishwanath.sinha@nic.in>, "bnsinha@gov.in" <bnsinha@gov.in>, "crbabu26@gmail.com" <crbabu26@gmail.com>, "crb26@hotmail.com" <crb26@hotmail.com>, "sesikeran@gmail.com" <sesikeran@gmail.com>, "nppbg@pau.edu" <nppbg@pau.edu>, "kk.sinha@nic.in" ... Continue Reading

On June 20th 2016, despite inviting a team of the Coalition for a GM Free India with a subject line that said "Meeting to discuss concerns with regard to transgenic technology and GM mustard", and despite us asking for at least 2 hours' presentation time for a 7-member delegation (at ... Continue Reading

Erratum: The Coalition's calculation of Male Sterility breakdown in Varuna barnase line, as described in Point 5 (i) in the letter below to the Ministers and PM is incorrect, and we regret this mistake from our side. The Ludhiana trial data shows that out of 10 branches of male sterile ... Continue Reading

New Delhi, April 6th 2016: In Orders with far-reaching implications, the Central Information Commission (CIC) directed the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), the apex regulatory body for GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) in India under the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change to verify and provide biosafety dossier of GM ... Continue Reading

GM MUSTARD TESTING RIGGED FOR UNSCIENTIFIC DECISION-MAKING:  DMH-11 YIELDS 10.4% TO 27.5% LESS THAN OTHER EXTENSIVELY TESTED CULTIVARS! YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A PDF COPY OF THIS NOTE HERE. This note prepared by the Coalition for a GM-Free India is about the R&D and testing of University of Delhi South Campus (UDSC)’s transgenic mustard hybrid ... Continue Reading

New Delhi, March 10th 2016: Releasing data from rapeseed-mustard seed testing evaluations from the country, and comparing it with the results being presented and claimed with regard to the controversial transgenic mustard hybrid DMH-11, the Coalition for a GM-Free India along with independent scientists, stated that GM mustard testing has ... Continue Reading

---------- 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

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

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

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

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

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

---------- 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