Tocklai Tea Institute: Scientists’ group to boost research & development

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The Centre has submitted a list of five scientists agreed upon by the petitioner and the respondents as well, and as such the Gauhati High Court has requested the panel of scientists to inquire in regard to research and development (R&D) work of Tocklai Tea Research Institute. The High Court has also directed Tocklai Tea Research Institute to provide all facilities and work in tandem with the scientists so as to improve its functioning.

In his order issued recently, Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Ajai Lamba and Justice Soumitra Saikia have said that the body of scientists will report “as regards the research and development work in the Research Institute in the past 10 (ten) years”. The bench has further said that “in the context of the available facilities, the body of scientists shall suggest how to better the functioning of the Research Institute, and also the mode in which the tea farming can be converted to organic farming’.

The five scientists are Dr Kamal Malla Buxarbaruah, former VC of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat; Dr Premananda Das, Chairman and Director of Science Foundation for Tribal and Rural Resource Development; Prof. Alak Kumar Buragohain, former VC of Dibrugarh University; Dr NC Talukdar, Director of Institute of Advanced Study in Science & Technology Department of Science & Technology, Government of India and Dr PK Borua (former professor of life science), Chairman, Centre for Tea & Agro Studies, Dibrugarh University.

The PIL (70/2019) has been list for its next hearing on April 20, 2020.

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