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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

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

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

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

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