Farmer Unions, Scientists, and Consumers write to Modi urging him to Stop GM Mustard as GM regulators close public feedback time, without putting out data in public domain
Published By Rajesh Krishnan On Wednesday, October 5th 2016. Under Biosafety, Field Trials, GM Crops, GM foods, Press Releases, Regulatory Processes
ICAR REPORT ON BNBt Cotton EXPOSES INCOMPETENCE OF GM SCIENTISTS AND REGULATORS TO REGULATE GMOs IN INDIA
Published By kavitha On Saturday, December 15th 2012. Under Biosafety, Bt Cotton, Press Releases, Regulatory Processes, Uncategorized Tags: Bikaneri Bt cotton, Biosafety, Bt cotton, Desi Bt cotton, SC GMO PIL, Sopory Committee
Coalition for GM Free India demands withdrawal of Supreme Court affidavit of Ministry of Agriculture that gives clean chit to GM regulators.
Reacting to the Prof.Sopory Committee Report1 that investigated the Bt Bikaneri Narma case, the Coalition for a GM-Free India said that, “We congratulate the Committee for its thorough investigation ... Continue Reading
10 years of Bt Cotton – False Hype and Failed Promises Exposed
Published By kavitha On Wednesday, March 21st 2012. Under Bt Cotton, News, Press Releases, Reports Tags: Bt cotton, Bt cotton false hype failed promise, cotton farmers crisis, farm suicides
The false hype and failed promises of Bt cotton in India were exposed by the Coalition for GM-Free India with a special report released in a press conference here today. As the 10th anniversary of Bt cotton’s regulatory approval in India approaches, the Coalition, using data from government institutions, highlighted ... Continue Reading
Mr Prime Minister, Your comments on the opposition to GM crops & Nuclear power plants
Dr Manmohan Singh,
Hon’ble Prime Minister of India,
# 7, Race Course Road,
New Delhi March 05, 2012
Your Comments on the Opposition to GM Crops and Nuclear Power Plants
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
There has been wide coverage of your interview with the journal ‘Science’, on February 24, 2012 concerning the opposition to ... Continue Reading
PM’s statement a purposive attempt to prevent a healthy debate on GM crops in India
Published By kavitha On Wednesday, February 29th 2012. Under News, Press Releases Tags: GM crops, Science & Democracy
Prime Ministers Statement – Is a purposive attempt to prevent a healthy debate on GM crops in India
It reeks of an inherent disrespect for science and democracy
27th February 2012: The Coalition for a GM-Free India is outraged by the statement made by the Prime Minister Sri.Manmohan Singh on foreign-funded NGOs ... Continue Reading
“GM FIELD TRIALS IN GUJARAT VIOLATIVE OF EPA RULES: RTI RESPONSES”
Sharing with media copies of information obtained through Right To Information Act, activists of Coalition for a GM-Free India pointed out that the open-air field trials of GM maize permitted in Gujarat are violative of EPA norms and demanded their immediate destruction. Apart from Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat is the only ... Continue Reading
Feb 9th is National Safe Food Day !!
Coalition for a GM-Free India celebrates Feb 9th as National Safe Food Day
New Delhi: February 9, 2012: On the second anniversary of the decision taken by the then Minister for Environment & Forests to declare a moratorium on Bt brinjal, the Coalition for a GM-Free India has decided to mark ... Continue Reading
Monsanto OFFICIALLY caught in illegal planting of GM maize in UAS Dharwad
Published By kavitha On Monday, February 6th 2012. Under Field Trials, News, Press Releases Tags: GEAC failure, Illegal planting, Monsanto
“BLACKLIST MONSANTO IMMEDIATELY : MNC CAUGHT VIOLATING BIOSAFETY NORMS YET AGAIN IN GM MAIZE TRIAL, THIS TIME OFFICIALLY”
New Delhi/Bengaluru, February 6th 2012: Ahead of a regulators’ meeting on February 8th 2012, and reacting to the confirmed reports of Monsanto’s illegal planting of Herbicide Tolerant (HT) maize in its GM maize ... Continue Reading
India’s ‘public sector indigenous Bt cotton’ a scientific fraud!
Published By kavitha On Friday, December 30th 2011. Under Bt Cotton, News, Press Releases Tags: Bt cotton, Scientific Fraud
Coalition for a GM-Free India demands immediate stopping of all public sector transgenic research and an independent enquiry and action against fraudulent scientists.
2011 ends with a big blot to the Indian scientific community, as was the case in 2010 too. The much-hyped public sector Bt cotton lines (Bikaneri Narma Bt ... Continue Reading
BRAI Bill tabling tomorrow: Opposition from all quarters
Published By kavitha On Monday, November 21st 2011. Under Biosafety, BRAI Bill, Press Releases, Regulatory Processes Tags: BRAI Bill
The text of the Statement of Concern signed by ten former Supreme Court Judges is available here
Appeal to Scrap Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill 2011
Jointly signed by various organisations and concerned citizens across the country
Date : 21 November 2011
To,
Dr. Manmohan Singh,
The Hon'ble Prime Minister,
Government of India.
Dear Dr. Manmohan ... Continue Reading
COALITION FOR A GM-FREE INDIA URGES ANDHRA PRADESH TO DISALLOW GM CROP TRIALS; WARNS GEAC AGAINST REVOKING THE REQUIREMENT FOR NO OBJECTION FROM STATES
Published By Admin On Saturday, July 30th 2011. Under GM Crops, Press Releases Tags: ABLE, GEAC, States
PRESS RELEASE: COALITION FOR A GM-FREE INDIA URGES ANDHRA PRADESH TO DISALLOW GM CROP TRIALS; WARNS GEAC AGAINST REVOKING THE REQUIREMENT FOR NO OBJECTION FROM STATES
Hyderabad, July 30th 2011: While many states like Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Chhattisgarh have stopped all field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) ... Continue Reading
