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'సమాచార కమిషనర్ల నియామకాలపై నివేదిక ఇవ్వండి'
కేంద్ర, రాష్ట్ర సమాచార కమిషన్లలోని ఖాళీలను భర్తీ చేయడం లేదంటూ దాఖలైన పిటిషన్ను సుప్రీం ధర్మాసనం విచారించింది. వెంటనే కమిషన్ నియామకాల స్థితిపై నివేదిక(స్టేటస్ రిపోర్టు) అందజేయాలని కేంద్ర, రాష్ట్ర ప్రభుత్వాలను ఆదేశించింది.
సమాచార కమిషన్ల నియామకాలపై నివేదిక ఇవ్వండి: సుప్రీంకోర్టు
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Published : Nov 6, 2019, 1:02 PM IST
| Updated : Nov 6, 2019, 1:12 PM IST
కేంద్ర, రాష్ట్ర సమాచార కమిషన్లలోని ఖాళీలను భర్తీ చేయడంపై (స్థితి నివేదిక) స్టేటస్ రిపోర్ట్ దాఖలు చేయాలని కేంద్రాన్ని, 9 రాష్ట్రాలను సుప్రీంకోర్టు ఆదేశించింది. సమాచార కమిషన్లలో ఖాళీలు భర్తీ చేయాలని ఇంతకు ముందు సుప్రీంకోర్టు ఇచ్చిన ఆదేశాలను ప్రభుత్వాలు అమలు చేయలేదంటూ ఆర్టీఐ కార్యకర్తలు అంజలీ భరద్వాజ్ తదితరులు వ్యాజ్యం దాఖలు చేశారు. ఈ పిటిషన్ను విచారించిన జస్టిస్ ఎస్ఏ బోబ్డే నేతృత్వంలోని ధర్మాసనం.. తాజా ఆదేశాలు జారీచేసింది.
ఆర్టీఐ కార్యకర్తల తరపున న్యాయవాది ప్రశాంత్ భూషణ్ వాదనలు వినిపించారు. సుప్రీం ఆదేశాలను కాదని, సమాచార కమిషన్లోని ఖాళీలను భర్తీచేయడానికి ఎంపిక చేసిన అభ్యర్థుల పేర్లను కేంద్ర, రాష్ట్ర ప్రభుత్వాలు తమ వెబ్సైట్లో ఉంచలేదని అన్నారు.
కేంద్ర, రాష్ట్ర సమాచార కమిషన్లలోని ఖాళీలను భర్తీ చేయడంపై (స్థితి నివేదిక) స్టేటస్ రిపోర్ట్ దాఖలు చేయాలని కేంద్రాన్ని, 9 రాష్ట్రాలను సుప్రీంకోర్టు ఆదేశించింది. సమాచార కమిషన్లలో ఖాళీలు భర్తీ చేయాలని ఇంతకు ముందు సుప్రీంకోర్టు ఇచ్చిన ఆదేశాలను ప్రభుత్వాలు అమలు చేయలేదంటూ ఆర్టీఐ కార్యకర్తలు అంజలీ భరద్వాజ్ తదితరులు వ్యాజ్యం దాఖలు చేశారు. ఈ పిటిషన్ను విచారించిన జస్టిస్ ఎస్ఏ బోబ్డే నేతృత్వంలోని ధర్మాసనం.. తాజా ఆదేశాలు జారీచేసింది.
ఆర్టీఐ కార్యకర్తల తరపున న్యాయవాది ప్రశాంత్ భూషణ్ వాదనలు వినిపించారు. సుప్రీం ఆదేశాలను కాదని, సమాచార కమిషన్లోని ఖాళీలను భర్తీచేయడానికి ఎంపిక చేసిన అభ్యర్థుల పేర్లను కేంద్ర, రాష్ట్ర ప్రభుత్వాలు తమ వెబ్సైట్లో ఉంచలేదని అన్నారు.
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Syracuse, New York – Sept. 30, 2019
1. Med chestnut harvesting
2. Tight harvesting
3. Med bags of nuts dropping
4. Wide harvest
5. Tight label on modified tree
6. Tight chestnuts in hand
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Newhouse, chestnut researcher:
"We have the bag them because of permit conditions right now because we're working with transgenic trees."
8. Med bagging chestnuts
9. Med un-bagging chestnuts
10. Tight removing nuts from bur
11. SOUNDBITE (English) William Powell, College of Environmental Science & Forestry:
"And so that's what makes it very unique is that here we are.
We have this technology. It's a very powerful technology and we can use that now to save a species."
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Townsend, Tenn. – Early 1900s
12. STILL Men stand in front of mature American chestnut trees
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Syracuse, New York – Sept. 30, 2019
13. Tight chestnut burs on branch
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ARCHIVE: Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia – 1930
14. STILL Trees stricken with chestnut blight
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Syracuse, New York – Sept. 30, 2019
15. Tight canker from chestnut blight
16. Med opening drawer with embryos
17. Tight young trees in lab
18. Med walking in front of lab shelves
19. Tight weighing chestnut
20. Med sorting chestnuts in lab
21. Tight writing label with nuts in foreground
22. Med writing label
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Laurens, New York – Oct. 10, 2019
23. Wide Allen Nichols walking with dog
24. Nichols through chestnut leaves
25. Zoom chestnut orchard
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Allen Nichols, New York chapter, American Chestnut Foundation:
"Some people go, 'Well, we shouldn't be playing God.' And I look at it and say, 'You know, people been playing the devil for years.' I mean, look at the damage that we have done over the years to so many things, that's what we've done. And If we don't start playing God soon we're going to lose our trees."
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Minneapolis, Minnesota – Oct. 16, 2019
27. Med biotechnology expert Doug Gurian-Sherman at keyboard
28. Tight keyboard
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Doug Gurian-Sherman, biotechnology expert:
"What could happen with mature chestnut trees and what effects they might have in the environment could be very different than younger trees and saplings,"
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Laurens, New York – Oct. 10, 2019
30. Med chestnut orchard
31. Tight dead leaves
32. Nichols at tree
STORYLINE:
Some chestnuts here are like no others in nature.
About half the nuts harvested at this experiment station have an added gene. It provides tolerance to a blight that all but wiped out the American chestnut tree generations ago.
"We have the bag them because of permit conditions right now because we're working with transgenic trees," said Andrew Newhouse, chestnut researcher.
Researchers will soon seek federal permission to distribute the modified trees for a restoration effort. It could expand the frontier for genetically engineered plants beyond farms and into forests.
Opponents warn of starting "a massive and irreversible experiment" in a highly complex ecosystem. Proponents see a technology already ubiquitous in the supermarket that could help save forests besieged by invasive pests.
"We have this technology. It's a very powerful technology and we can use that now to save a species," said William Powell, College of Environmental Science & Forestry.
The blight decimated a towering tree species once dominant in forests from Maine to Georgia. Nuts from up to 4 billion trees fattened hogs, and its sturdy wood built cabins. Yet by the time Nat King Cole crooned about "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" after World War II, trees were doomed by the blight. Surviving trees today are typically shrubs rising from old roots, yet to be infected.
Long-running efforts to breed American chestnut trees with the blight tolerance of Chinese chestnut trees are more complicated than once appreciated. That's because the Chinese tree's tolerance comes from a suite of genes, instead of one or two.
Powell and his research partner at New York's College of Environmental Science & Forestry Charles Maynard began working on a complementary track decades ago at the request of the New York chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation. The added wheat gene enables trees to produce an enzyme that breaks down harmful acid released by the fungus.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon assess whether the tree is safe. The case is being closely watched by scientists, many who believe biotech could help save other threatened trees.
In rural upstate New York, Allen Nichols is waiting to breed them with trees on his land. He fights the blight, but trees are still stricken.
"Some people go, 'Well, we shouldn't be playing God.' And I look at it and say, 'You know, people been playing the devil for years.' I mean, look at the damage that we have done over the years to so many things, that's what we've done. And If we don't start playing God soon we're going to lose our trees," said Nichols, president of the New York chapter, American Chestnut Foundation.
But critics say evaluating the long-term risks of reintroducing American chestnuts will be difficult.
"What could happen with mature chestnut trees and what effects they might have in the environment could be very different than younger trees and saplings," said Doug Gurian-Sherman, a biotechnology and sustainable agriculture expert.
The federal decision could be a few years away. Even if approved, it would take generations to judge its success.
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