Joint Statement Issued Against GM Mustard in Hyderabad
Published By kavitha On Sunday, August 14th 2016. Under Uncategorized
FARMER UNIONS, CITIZENS' GROUPS AND SCIENTISTS STRONGLY OPPOSE GM MUSTARD; DEMAND THAT STATE GOVERNMENTS WRITE TO CENTRE AGAINST GM MUSTARD APPROVAL
Hyderabad, August 13, 2016
A Round Table meeting of citizens' groups including major farmer unions and scientists, held on the subject of GM crops in general and GM mustard in particular ... Continue Reading
Letter to GEAC and all presentations & other supporting material on GM mustard
Published By kavitha On Monday, July 18th 2016. Under Uncategorized
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
GM MUSTARD FRAUD AND HAZARDS EXPOSED IN SPECIAL GEAC MEETING: “We will not allow Indians to be made lab rats in an irreversible and irresponsible experiment” avow farm activists, scientists and others
Published By kavitha On Monday, July 18th 2016. Under Uncategorized
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
Coalition writes to Minister Javadekar condemning GEAC’s behaviour and requesting him for time to listen to arguments and evidence about transgenic mustard hybrid DMH-11
Published By kavitha On Tuesday, June 21st 2016. Under Uncategorized
---------- 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
GEAC CHOOSES NOT TO LISTEN TO PRESENTATIONS OF INDEPENDENT EXPERTS, FARMER LEADERS AND CONSUMER REPRESENTATIVES
Published By kavitha On Monday, June 20th 2016. Under Uncategorized
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
Coalition shows how Delhi University’s transgenic mustard hybrid DMH-11 is a SCIENTIFIC FRAUD in its R&D and testing
Published By kavitha On Monday, June 20th 2016. Under Uncategorized
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
Central Information Commission orders MoEFCC to provide biosafety dossier of GM mustard as well as data pertaining to all other GMOs in the pipeline
Published By kavitha On Wednesday, April 6th 2016. Under Uncategorized
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
Coalition shows how DMH-11 was made to look good and higher-yielding!
Published By kavitha On Thursday, March 10th 2016. Under Uncategorized Tags: GM Mustard, GM mustard lower yields, GM Mustard testing rigged
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
GM Mustard Testing Rigged For Unscientific Decision-Making: DMH-11 YIELDS 10.4% TO 27.5% LESS THAN OTHER EXTENSIVELY TESTED CULTIVARS! Enormous Risks Being Pushed by Crop Developers & Regulators On The Basis Of Unfounded and Exaggerated Claims Of Benefits
Published By kavitha On Thursday, March 10th 2016. Under Uncategorized
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
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
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