Puneri Pagdi
Puneri Pagadi” to be the Intellectual Property of the city: TIMES OF IINDIA ,PUNE, 30TH MAY
GMGC ( Great Mission Group Consultancy) , as the name suggest, our mission is to spread awareness about intellectual property rights by organising various seminars, conferences, workshops , IP related courses among students and inventors to boost the no. of patent and other related applications. Bearing this object in mind we took an initiative to register a GI (Geographical Indications) for Puneri Pagadi which projects the pride of Pune city thus entitling it to be registered as an intellectual property of the city .It would serve three purposes:
1. International recognition of Puneri Pagadi.
2. Preservation of culture of Pune
3. Exclusive manufacturing rights to the manufacturers of Puneri Pagadi in Pune
Thus this would indirectly protect the cultural diversity and intellectual property of the Pune which directly supplements our objective. This is because we have already suffered internationally in “Basmati case” and we do not intend to have any infringement both nationally and internationally that would affect the culture of Pune and thus extending our hand towards what is called as a Socio-corporate responsibility.
Also, with this we want to boost and enlighten the masses to file GI applications, as this would act as a preventive measure in protecting the culture of India including inventive skills of human mind with the help of natural resources. Our view is that various places in India have peculiar characteristics, may be foodstuffs or clothing which makes it distinct from others due to the skills and conditions involved. If people take initiative in protecting their geographical indications it shall have a great impact on the status, position and economy of India.
We selected Puneri Pagadi as our project because of the honour, pride and distinctiveness attached to it. It was used from ages by many intellectuals like Lokmanya Tilak , J. Ranade , Abasaheb Majumdar among others and represents an intellect of the person and is used to facilitate the guest of honour as a tribute to his intellectuality . We researched through various sources and interviewed almost all the manufacturers present in Pune to put our project in place. It would also enlighten future generations of the importance attached to it.
On 10th of June 2008 GMGC registered Puneri Pagadi as a Geographical Indication. This idea and initiative was applauded both by Puneities as well as Chennai GI office and were happy of the initiative taken by students. We promoted the project at first through newspapers, radio and other media and we are very thankful to them in participating in this project.
We further intend to register more GI’s to protect the culture of India as a whole in the international arena and in turn benefiting the economy of the country. Here we need support from students and individuals to excel further in the task taken by us . Let us work together be intellectual for our intellectual India.
