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| PM steps in after Pawar SOS |
| Bt brinjal: PM steps in after Pawar SOS
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| INDIA
, 23-February-2010
3:43:43 AM |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has stepped in to make it clear that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will not have the last word on the introduction of Bt Brinjal or any GM (genetically modified) food.
This comes after a strong note from Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to the Prime Minister last week suggesting that ad hoc decisions on GM foods — a clear reference to the moratorium on Bt Brinjal — would “set the clock back”, demoralise Indian scientists and jeopardies R&D crucial to food security.
Last week, the PM decided to define his government’s approach to the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods after his Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) echoed Pawar’s push for frontline technology in agriculture.
Singh called a meeting of Pawar, Ramesh and Science & Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan.
Sources said the recommendations of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee and the Review Committee of Genetic Manipulation on the safety of transgenic crops would now be considered by this new team — the PM, Agriculture, S&T and Environment & Forests Ministers — rather than be left to Environment & Forests to decide unilaterally, as happened this time
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