The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Plant with caution
THE GENETIC ENGINEERING Approval Committee (GEAC) deferring a decision on allowing commercial planting of ProAgro Seed Company Pvt Ltd's genetically modified mustard hybrids should not disappoint the proponents of GM technology. One, the peak ... More

ECONOMY

Regulating labour markets for more employment
The Report of the Second National Labour Commission, which has just been released, identifies the important problems facing most of the workers in the country today. However, its suggestions are not likely to do much to address these pressing proble ms, say C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh in this edition of Macroscan. More

BIO-TECH & GENETICS

GM mustard: Playing havoc with food chain
Notwithstanding the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee's excitement over the development of a genetically modified mustard, it remains that the alien genes in mustard come laced with potential dangers. Surprisingly, the average citizen, who uses mustard for various purposes, is not even being consulted, says Devinder Sharma. More

BANKING

What ails cooperative banks?
Cooperative banks suffer from a congeries of maladies ranging from member apathy, duality of control by State governments and the Reserve Bank of India, low recovery rates and weak financial position, besides failure to modernise systems and procedur es. It is time both the Centre and the States braced themselves up to institute reform milestones and pursue them vigorously. More

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