Punjab Journalists Briefed on Agric Biotech
June 15, 2007| |
The Chandigarh Press Club, the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, Ministry of Environment and Forest and the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) jointly organized a Media Workshop on Agricultural Biotechnology in Punjabi and English in Chandigarh on 7th June 2007.
The event, the second of a series of media workshops in local languages, was entirely supported by the Ministry of Environment and Forest of India under the GEF-World Bank biosafety capacity building project. More than 75 journalists and reporters from print and electronic media attended the program. Resource persons included Dr SR Rao form Department of Biotechnology, Dr BS Dhillon and Dr R G Saini from the Punjab Agriculture University (PAU), Dr Guriender Randhawa from the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Dr. N S Tiwana and Dr J K Arora from the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, Dr. Gurdial Singh and Dr. Palwinder Singh Aulukh from the Dept of Agriculture, Govt of Punjab, Mr. Balwant Takshak from the Chandigarh Press Club, and Bhagirath Choudhary from ISAAA.
For more information contact Dr JK Arora at jkarora20@rediffmail.com. Read more about this event at http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=240061 and
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070608/main7.htm
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