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Even more serious was that only PAU/Punjab Government issued NOC among 11 states that Bayer applied for clearance
The Coalition for a GM-Free India has raised strong objections to issuance of no objection certificates by the Punjab Government for conducting confined field trials of two kinds of GM maize of Bayer (earlier Monsanto) in PAU, Ludhiana. "It needs to be ascertained whether the NOC has been issued by the state government with the full knowledge of the political leadership in the state or not," said Kavitha Kuruganti, Co-Convenor of the Coalition for a GM-Free India, in a lett...