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Fourth Discussion Meeting of the Expert Committee to Discuss the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 08, 2014 04:07 PM
The fourth expert committee meeting was held on November 10, 2014 at the Department of Biotechnology to discuss the potential privacy concerns of the draft Human DNA Profiling Bill. Sunil Abraham however was unable to participate because of technical problems.

Agenda

  1. Welcome and opening remarks by the Secretary, DBT
  2. Remarks by the Chairman - Dr. T.S. Rao, Senior Adviser, DBT
  3. A brief overview on deliberations and decisions of Hon’ble Supreme Court - Dr. Alka Sharma, Director, DBT
  4. Discussion and finalization of the Bill by the members
  5. Recommendations  of the Expert Committee
  6. Any other item with the permission of the Chairman.

Resources

Click here (Zip file, 2698 Kb) to download the following resources from earlier meetings:

  1. Record note of discussions of the Expert Committee Meeting held on January 31, 2013 at DBT, New Delhi, to discuss the potential privacy concerns on draft Human DNA Profiling Bill.
  2. Annexure 1 to Record note: Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012: The Privacy Issues and Concerns
  3. Annexure 2 to Record note: Short background note on the draft Human DNA Profiling Bill
  4. Record note of the 2nd discussion meeting of the Expert Committee held on May 13, 2013 in DBT to discuss the draft Human DNA Profiling Bill
  5. Minutes of the 3rd meeting of the Expert Committee held on November 25, 2013 in DBT to discuss the draft Human DNA Profiling Bill
  6. Record note of the discussions of the Experts Sub-committee Meeting on Human DNA Profiling Bill held on September 3, 2013 at CPFD, Hyderabad
  7. Affidavit on behalf of DBT
  8. Human Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2012 (Working Draft Version, April 29, 2012)