India has been elected as the new Chairman of the International Rubber Study Group. Mrs. Sheela Thomas, Chairperson of the Indian Rubber Board, will officiate as the Chairman of International Rubber Study Group (IRSG), for the next two years. The decision was made unanimously in the meeting of the Heads of Delegations (HOD) held on 14th July 2011 at Singapore. EU was elected as the new Vice Chairman for the next two years. Members opined that India, being both a producer and a consumer of rubber, would be in a good position to protect the interests of both producers and consumers in IRSG.
While presiding over the meeting of the HOD, the new Chairman of IRSG, Mrs. Sheela Thomas, highlighted the need for increasing the coordination among ANRPC, IRSG and IRRDB. There should not be duplication of work among the organisations and the synergy of expertise of the three organisations would be appropriately utilised for the benefit of rubber industry.
Read lot more in Rubber4U – 1st August 2011 issue
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