Govt ignoring experts in promoting bamboo sector: Sunil Joshi
(WorldNews India)

Sunil Joshi (67), chairman of Bamboo Society of India (BSI), Maharashtra chapter, and founder of Institute of Village Enterprise Development for Handicrafts Artisans (VEDHA), is promoting bamboo for past 25 years as ecofriendly resource for rural development. Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board (MBDB) is in place for the last three years and last week a Bamboo Promotion Company was also formed by the state government. TOI talked to Joshi whether things have really changed for artisans and farmers despite National Mission on Bamboo Technology & Trade Development Applications launched by then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2003 and two bamboo missions thereafter. Excerpts. Q. Last 15 years have...