22.08.2011 | permalink
Greenpeace India, an independent environmental organisation, has sought public consultation on the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India bill, 2011. [...] ”The bill is not transparent and a threat to our food,” said Rajesh Krishnan, an agriculture campaigner with Greenpeace India. [...] The BRAI bill is also termed unconstitutional because it allegedly takes away the right of the state to intervene. [...] Krishnan alleged that the BRAI bill is also overriding the RTI Act. ”The proposed bill states biological assessment and other information will not be given out as it will be a commercially confidential information. So, the public will not get any information related to GM crops,” said Krishnan.