Dear Friends,

Greetings from a rainy pune!1

i am writing to all with a small request, As you all know that the
National Biofuel Policy has been announced and passed by the cabinet.
till date the text of the doc is not available with any of us on this
listserve. Shalini is trying to get the text. My request is we should
draft a letter to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, with a
copy to PMO, Ms. Sonia Gandhi etc reg this. I am pasting below a mail
in italics sent by shalini in which she flags some key aspects of the
policy based on the press release of the GOI,

No progress on copy of the text today, we keep at it this week; else I
see no harm in the Coalition already sending out a missive reiterating
the lack of transparency, while demanding once again for a disclosure
even including the Coalition's reactions to what WAS made public in
the GOI release which gives the salient features of the approved
policy, flagging from amongst the dozen points:

* Bio-diesel plantations on community / Government / forest waste
lands would be encouraged
* Sub-Committee under the Steering Committee would be led by the
Department of Biotechnology
* Major thrust to be given to Research, Development & Demonstration
with focus on plantations, processing and production technologies
including second generation cellulosic biofuels

FYI, /Biofuel To Fire
Biofuel development is ignoring critical socio-economic concerns/
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Op200908change.asp

Shalini

The request is some one with considerable experience, information and
hands on work in the arena of Biofuel, like Viren, Debu or Pankaj or
anyone else could initiate a draft of the letter onto which the other
group members could add on and then the consolidated letter could be
sent to the people concerned.

awaiting your kind response in this regard.

warmly............krishna
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krishna
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