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Gujarat Pattern Bio-technology Business
Plan to be prepared by December-2000
NEW DELHI : A decision was taken to prepare a Gujarat Pattern Bio-technology
Business Plan which was aimed at converting State's bio-resources
into developmental resources at the first meeting of newly constituted
Gujarat Council of Bio-technology under the chairmanship of Gujarat
Chief Minister Shri Keshubhai Patel. Stressing on the rapid development
of bio-technology in the State, the Gujarat CM said that use of bio-technology
should be increased in a big way with the help of existing infrastructure
facilities and research management. Prominent scholar Dr M.S. Swaminathan,
who is also the member of the Council, welcomed the suggestion of
conversion of bio-technology into developmental resources. The meeting
was attended by S/Shri Becharbha Bhadani, Minister of State for Agriculture,
M.M. Mehta, Vice-Chancellor, Gujarat Agriculture University, Prof
N.V. Vasani, Advisor to the CM, and L.N.S. Mukundan, Chief Secretary.
RSS sues Statesman for defamation
In an editorial of The Statesman (29-5-2000)
published from Calcutta, Delhi and Guwahati, the RSS was called an
organisation which killed Gandhi, besides other observations made
by the Editor of the newspaper. The RSS has taken a serious view of
these defamatory remarks in the editorial and decided to file a complaint
against Shri C.R. Irani, Editor-in-Chief, Shri Sudhir Kumar, Printer
& Publisher, Shri Ravindra Kumar, Managing Editor, The Statesman,
Calcutta, Shri Saubhik Chakrabarti, Resident Editor, The Statesman,
New Delhi, and Shri Siby Thomas, Printer and Publisher, The Statesman,
New Delhi u/s 499/500 IPC. A complaint had accordingly been lodged
on September 26 by RSS through Shri Darshan Lal Jain, Prant Sanghchalak,
Haryana, against all these persons in the court of Shri Lalit Batra,
A.C.J.M., Jagadhri, through Shri Pradeep Garg, Advocate in the District
Courts at Jagadhri.
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