Govt reconstitutes NAC
Mihir
Shah, Member, Planning Commission, and Ashis Mondal, founder of the
Bhopal-based NGO, Action for Social Advancement, have been inducted in
the advisory panel for a period of one year.
Noted
agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan, bureaucrat- turned-activist
Harsh Mander and academician Madhav Gadgil have been denied
renomination.
The tenure of the NAC had expired on 31st
May. The government reconstituted the advisory panel on Thursday making
it a 12-member body, including Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
Other
members of the panel who have been renominated are N C Saxena, Narendra
Jadhav, Pramod Tandon, Aruna Roy, A K Shiva Kumar, Deep Joshi, Anu Aga,
Farah Naqvi and Mirai Chatterjee.
The tenure of the members of the reconstituted panel is till 31st May 2013.
Jean
Dreze, who was appointed member of the NAC in 2009, had quit after the
panel had sent its recommendations to the government on the Food
Security Bill.
Ram Dayal Munda, a prominent tribal leader and NAC member since 2009, passed away in September last year.
A meeting of the NAC which was scheduled on 29th June has been postponed to 6th July.
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