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We need a White Paper on farm reforms – Part 2 January 26, 2021, 11:18 AM IST The blog is named after Seeing the Invisible, the title of a book on economics for children that Sanjeev wrote in 2018. Economics involves the study of incentives, motivations and information flows which are invisible. Likewise, self-seeking ministers and bureaucrats often work invisibly (and insidiously) against the public interest - more so in socialist countries like India where governments take...

Read more about Delhi Police flags threat to farmers tractor rally on January 26 on Business Standard. Says more than 300 Twitter handles created in Pakistan to disrupt farmer rally

Ensure farmers’ right to remunerative prices × Farmers’ organisations are right in seeking legal backing for MSP. The price deficiency payment scheme should be implemented Due to certain peculiarities of agriculture, farmers as producers, unlike their counterparts elsewhere, are not in a position to decide the price of what they produce. Price discovery through sheer free play of supply and demand that rarely exists elsewhere, prevails in agriculture. That, unfortunately, relegate the far...

Thousands of farmers have been protesting at Delhis Singhu, Tikri, and Ghaziabad borders from past 59 days, condemning three contentious farm laws passed by the...

Synopsis As the PM puts it: Atmanirbhar Bharat aims to make in India not just for India, but for the world. Digital Content Producer, ET Online On 12th May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Atmanirbhar Bharat Yojana (self-reliant India campaign). In the months that followed, the Atmanirbharta credo was at the core of three stimulus packages designed to counter the economic impact of Covid. Modi has on multiple occasions highlighted his vision of seeking to make India a key player in t...

UPDATED: January 25, 2021 11:36 IST Chilly relations Protesting farmers take out a tractor rally on January 7. (Photo: Bandeep Singh) What the Green Revolution did for India to attain self-sufficiency in wheat and rice in the 1960s, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government had hoped its three farm legislations would do for agriculture marketing in the country. Over 70 years after Independence, more than half of India’s population still depends on agriculture for a living, even though the sector c...

The Threat of Corporate Interests Is a Key Unifying Factor in the Farmer Protests While rich farmers, who were so far aloof from the struggle, have been compelled to join the small peasantry in the face of a larger corporate threat, it is yet to be seen if the protests will temper existing inequalities. Farmers shout slogans at Singhu border during their Delhi Chalo protest march against the Centres new farm laws, in New Delhi, in New Delhi, Friday, December 11, 2020. Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary ...

Why legal reform remains an afterthought Post-1991, laws primarily changed because of WTO obligations or competition, and not because it was explicitly on the agenda. Art: Hesitant Attempt by Gigi Scaria, 2018, Bronze (Courtesy: Gigi Scaria/Chemould Prescott Road) 9 min read Share Via Read Full Story Among the films to watch in 2021 is Kaagaz, a biographical drama directed by Satish Kaushik that documents the tribulations of a man called Lal Bihari. This gentleman was declared dead in 1975, s...

Rahul Gandhi said he was not scared of PM Narendra Modi as he was a clean person and he would continue to fight alone even if no one sided with him.