COIMBATORE: The Sugarcane Breeding Institute (SBI) might not be shutdown or merged with other institutions, Central executive officials clarified in a letter to Coimbatore MP P Nagarajan.
There had been apprehensions a few of the scientists and workforce of the institute about rumours to close it down at the strains of the government printing press. The letter got here as a relief to them.
Nagarajan had asked the union agriculture ministry on December 18 not to shut down or merge SBI, the National Research centre for Banana in Trichy and the Central Institute of Brackish Water Aquaculture in Chennai.
Minister of agriculture and farmers welfare Radha Mohan Singh, in a letter dated January 12 to Nagarajan, stated there is not any such proposal as of now.
Meanwhile, deputy director general (horticulture& crop science) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (Icar) Anand Kumar Singh, in a letter to the secretary of the Agricultural Research Service Scientists Forum's Coimbatore unit Ravindra Naik, additionally stated that there is not any plan to merge or shut down SBI.
An skilled committee led through former secretary of the dept of science and generation T Ramasami had steered the ministry to merge many institutions to reduce expenditure. Following the recommendation, there were rumours about the merger of SBI with Iisr in Lucknow.
Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi Okay Palaniswami had additionally asked the Union executive not to shut or merge the institute. Mdmk leader Vaiko additionally condemned any such move.
SBI was once established through the British Government in 1912 on a 250-acre farm land. More than 200 people, including 75 scientists, are hired there. The institute had developed a brand new number of Sugarcane 'Co 0238' a few years in the past. Uttar Pradesh had topped in sugarcane manufacturing through cultivating the variability.
There had been apprehensions a few of the scientists and workforce of the institute about rumours to close it down at the strains of the government printing press. The letter got here as a relief to them.
Nagarajan had asked the union agriculture ministry on December 18 not to shut down or merge SBI, the National Research centre for Banana in Trichy and the Central Institute of Brackish Water Aquaculture in Chennai.
Minister of agriculture and farmers welfare Radha Mohan Singh, in a letter dated January 12 to Nagarajan, stated there is not any such proposal as of now.
Meanwhile, deputy director general (horticulture& crop science) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (Icar) Anand Kumar Singh, in a letter to the secretary of the Agricultural Research Service Scientists Forum's Coimbatore unit Ravindra Naik, additionally stated that there is not any plan to merge or shut down SBI.
An skilled committee led through former secretary of the dept of science and generation T Ramasami had steered the ministry to merge many institutions to reduce expenditure. Following the recommendation, there were rumours about the merger of SBI with Iisr in Lucknow.
Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi Okay Palaniswami had additionally asked the Union executive not to shut or merge the institute. Mdmk leader Vaiko additionally condemned any such move.
SBI was once established through the British Government in 1912 on a 250-acre farm land. More than 200 people, including 75 scientists, are hired there. The institute had developed a brand new number of Sugarcane 'Co 0238' a few years in the past. Uttar Pradesh had topped in sugarcane manufacturing through cultivating the variability.
‘Sugarcane Breeding Institute not to be merged or closed’
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