Approval for Bt brinjal will come by the end of this year or early next year, said Mr R.K. Sinha, Executive Director, National Seed Association of India. Even as the debate between the two groups in favour of and against the Bt brinjal rages on, Mr Sinha reaffirmed that the Union Government was committed to the cause of genetically engineered crops and would approve Bt brinjal once it completed all the trials and felt satisfied that it would not be detrimental to the interest of the farmers.