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| Mashelkar in the eye of a storm |
| MNC interest disguised as national interest: CPI leader Raja
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| INDIA
, 23-February-2007
2:50:49 AM |
| The Left parties and experts on Thursday demanded scrapping of the Mashelkar Committee report on patents and asked the Union Government to reject any proposal from its members to rewrite the "plagiarised" and "pro-multinational corporation" paper.
The Government had asked the former Director-General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) R. A. Mashelkar and four other "experts" to examine Left objections to the new legislation on patents.
However, key portions of the committee report were found to be lifted from a document funded by MNC pharmaceutical companies and reflected their views on the two issues.
Demanding appointment of a joint parliamentary committee to examine the two issues — limiting pharmaceutical patents to a chemical entity, and, in case of substantial improvements, excluding micro-organisms from the patents regime -- leaders of the Left parties told a press conference here on Thursday that public health implications were too serious for the issue to be left to another expert committee.
"It is a big shock that such a high-level committee has indulged in plagiarism. It is a national embarrassment because developing countries look to India for intellectual leadership. The Prime Minister can't accept the offer [to rewrite the report] by Dr. Mashelkar," said CPI (M) leader Nilotpal Basu.
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