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Centre to appoint new members for CCSEA as the term of present committee to expire by November

Gireesh Babu, New Delhi
Friday, September 13, 2024, 08:00 Hrs  [IST]

The ministry of fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying (FAHD) is in the process of appointing new members for the Committee for Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CCSEA), a body set up to monitor experiments on animals, with the term of the present committee is scheduled to be over by November 1, 2024.

The present committee has been constituted by the FAHD through an extraordinary Gazette notification on November 2, 2021. The notification was later amended with the inclusion of Animal Husbandry Commissioner as Chairman and representative from ICMR as Member of Committee and updating the designations of a few members through another notification on August 16, 2024.

There are currently 20 members in the Committee and the term of the Committee in the Gazette notification is three years from the date of its constitution, which is valid till November 1, 2024.

It is in this backdrop the Ministry has called for nominations from the categories including pharmaceutical science, bio-statistics, veterinary sciences and zoology, and experts of livestock or requines or dogs and non human primates.

Socially aware members having knowledge of animal ethics, welfare and alternatives to animal experimentation can also be nominated for the position of member of the Committee, said the Ministry as per the Administrative (Committee for Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals) Rules, 2023.

The Ministry said that the eligible participants may submit their applications in the requisite proforma shared by the Ministry by September 13, 2024 along with forwarding letter through their respective head of department or office, to the Joint Commissioner of Animal Welfare and Member Secretary of CCSEA.

The CCSEA is constituted under Section 15(1) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, which is duty bound to take all such measures as may be necessary to ensure that animals are not subjected to unnecessary pains or suffering before, during or after performance of experiments on them.

The CCSEA functions within the ambit of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960 and Rules for Breeding of and Experiments on Animal (Control and Supervision), 1998 as amended from time to time. Joint Secretary (Animal Welfare) is the Chairman of CCSEA and Joint Commissioner (Animal Welfare) is the Member Secretary of CCSEA.

CCSEA is duty bound to take all such measures as may be necessary to ensure that animals are not subjected to unnecessary pain or suffering before, during or after performance of experiments on them. The Committee formulated the “Breeding of and Experiments on Animals (Control & Supervision) Rules, 1998” (amended in 2001 and 2006) to regulate the experimentation on animals.

Under the provisions of the above rules, establishments engaged in bio-medical research are required to get themselves registered with CCSEA, constitute institutional animal ethics committee (IAEC), get their animal house facilities inspected, and also get specific projects for research cleared by CCSEA before commencing the research on animals.

Further, breeding and trade of animals for such experimentation are also regulated under these rules.

According to the Annual Report of the Ministry, as on March 31, 2024, 1,633 establishments are registered with CCSEA. During the fiscal year 2023-24, the CCSEA has seen registration and constitution of 72 IAECs, renewal and reconstitution of 275 IAECs, and revision of 362 IAECs. The CCSEA has held 12 meetings during the fiscal, and research protocols of 634 large animal projects were approved. A total of 146 nominees of CCSEA were trained during the period, and seven mid-term inspections of the establishments to check the health status of large animals and status of research protocols which have been approved by the Committee were conducted.

The objectives of the Committee is to bring untapped academic and bio-medical research organizations under the ambit of the rules framed by registering them to regulate the experiments on animals, to create awareness of ethics while conducting experiments on animals by way sponsoring and conducting conferences, and conducting regional workshops cum training programmes for nominees of CCSEA.

 

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