Ashish Bhutani, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation has joined as the Central Registrar once again on 1st of May. He succeeds Raj Singh who retired on April 30.
Mr Bhutani is an old hand as he served as Central Registrar earlier also. He would take part in cooperative events and generally encouraged the movement in his earlier avatar, recalls cooperators. He would travel out of Delhi to participate in NCCT programmes held outstation without any grudge, they added.
Talking to Indian Cooperative on Bhutani’s new assignment Mohan Mishra, Secretary NCCT said few officers are as pro- cooperative as Mr Bhutani and we see his re-joining as a stroke of our luck.
Indian Cooperative could not contact Mr Bhutani as he has left for Istanbul with Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh to attend the two-day agri-meet of G-20 nations starting May 7.
This is the second meeting of the G-20 agriculture ministers. The first meeting was held in June 2011 in Paris, France.
The Agriculture Ministry in a statement said that the G-20 meeting would deliberate on global issues such as food security, food inflation, farm productivity, foodgrain loss, and the welfare of farmers, among other things.
The G-20 meeting is likely to thrash out a strategic policy to address key farm issues. Russia, France, Brazil, China, Australia, Japan and Turkey are some of the leading G-20 nations.