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My name is Onkar Tiwari and I am working as Scientific Officer in the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. I am looking after the Environmental Biotechnology and Crop Biotechnology programmes in DBT.
In India, the only commercialized GM crop is Bt cotton. India is an agricultural economy. If we have to grow our food production we have to adopt newer technologies. From the starting of the transgenic technology development there have been different views expressed by different stakeholders in India and in other parts of the world. In recent times, two important bodies namely the scientific advisory committee (SAC) to the prime minister and the parliamentary standing committee on agriculture have come up with different views and set of recommendation on transgenics. The Supreme Court of India is also considering the matter. It can be expected that sooner or later everything will be streamlined in terms of regulation.
However, I would like to know that how many scientifically proven, well validated and promising GM crop products have been ingeniously developed in India that are already in the regulatory pipeline or are very near to entering the regulatory pipeline. I would also like to know where India stands in transgenic research & development in comparison to other technologically advanced countries, and how is the world looking towards India as a market place of a developing country or as a technology provider. I am curious to know about this because most of the discussion here is only focused on developing country as a market place only!
Dr. Onkar N. Tiwari,
Scientist 'C'/ Sr. Scientific Officer -I
Department of Biotechnology
Ministry of Science & Technology (Govt. of India)
Room No. 621, 6th Floor, Block- 2,CGO Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110003
India
Telephone:+91-11-49166740
e-mail: onkart (at) gmail.com
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