Annual general Meeting BAPTC&B to be held on the First of December
The Executive Committee of BAPTC&B, in a meeting held on the 30th of October have decided to hold their one-day along Annual General Meeting on the 1st of December, The proposal made by Prof. A. S. Islam to honor Prof. Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty and Prof. Kalyan Das for their outstanding contributions to the field of Biotechnology by conferring on them honorary Fellowship of the Association was not accepted by the EC on the ground that it requires prior approval by the AGM and that there are many more Plant biotechnologists such as Professor E.C. Cocking, Dr. H. C Chaturvedi, Professor S.S. Bhojwani who deserve this honor before anyone else is considered because of their close association with the plant tissue culture groups of Bangladesh. Since its birth in 1990, none has so far received honorary fellowship of the Association.
