Don't appoint bureaucrat as recruitment panel head: Farm scientists to Modi

In a letter to the PM, they say appointing a bureaucrat will lead to regular interference in the process of talent search

India's top agriculture scientists have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, opposing any move to appoint a bureaucrat as chairman of the Agriculture Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB).

In the letter last month, scientists under the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) said that any move to appoint a bureaucrat instead of a career scientist as head of the ASRB will end its autonomy and lead to interference in talent search.

ASRB, the main body for recruitment of agriculture scientists in the country, was set up in 1973 and has been instrumental in appointment of scientists in all major agriculture institutes