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Prakash Javadekar, the environment minister, said India had a “right to grow” and that it could not address climate change until it had eradicated poverty.

According to the Intelligence Bureau report, Greenpeace and other environmentalist groups have stalled the development of new coal mines, challenged its plans for more coal-fired power stations, and delayed other vital infrastructure projects in campaigns which had reduced India’s GDP growth by up to 3?per cent.

Much of their work, the report said, has been funded by the US-based Centre for Media and Democracy, which it described as a Democratic Party-oriented group supported by liberals like George Soros and “multiple far-Left foundations”.

The report, which was leaked last week, singled out Dr. Vandana Shiva, an Indian scientist who advises Prince Charles on sustainable agriculture.

She has been his long-term collaborator on organic farming since they participated in the Reith Lectures in 2000. He is said to find her inspiring and keeps a bust of her at his Highgrove home.

During his visit to India last November, the Prince visited her organic farm in Dehra Dun to highlight her campaign against the use of genetically modified seeds. Dr Shiva has blamed the high cost of GM cotton seeds for the suicides of 284,000 indebted farmers since 1995.

According to the Intelligence Bureau report, “six NGOs, including Greenpeace, are at the forefront of anti-GMO activism in India” and the movement “was initiated in 2003 by Vandana Shiva”. It also emphasises her role as a consultant to Greenpeace Australia and her group, Navdanya, as a recipient of foreign aid.