23rd March, 2012
Gudi Padva
Dear Friends,
Catastrophe averted – Planning Commission withdraws
proposal to lift ban on export of beef.
As soon as Viniyog Parivar came to know of the proposal of sub-group on Meat and Abattoirs in the working group of Agriculture Ministry, making recommendation to the Planning Commission that the present ban on beef export in the Import-Export policy of the country should be lifted, we raised an alarm on 16-2-2012 which was spread to thousands and lakhs of people through email and other modes and people in lakhs sent their protests to the Planning Commission. This has yielded the desired result and the Planning Commission has issued a Press release on 16-3-12 withdrawing the proposal, a copy of which is attached herewith.
The Planning Commission has the audacity to describe this grave recommendation as “an inadvertent clerical mistake”. If such inadvertent clerical mistakes can creep up at the level of Planning Commission of the country, God save this country.
Anyway, congratulations friends, for your successful campaign and Viniyog Parivar thanks all persons, organizations and Jeevdaya premis who took very strong and active part in this campaign. At the same time, please beware ! The meat lobby will not leave it so easily. It is bound to try all tricks in its bag after a lull and we need to be ever vigilant. The Government machinery has lakhs of clerks and hence there are lakhs of chances of inadvertent clerical errors !
With regards,
Viniyog Parivar
