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Interestingly, the SC-appointed panel was not in favour of a total repeal of the three controversial farm laws and instead had suggested leaving procurement of crops at a specified price to the states and scrapping of the Essential Commodities Act.

NBR asks people to be prepared to buy commodities at higher prices

The Supreme Court-appointed panel was not in favour of total repeal of the three controversial farm laws and instead had suggested leaving procurement of crops at a specified price to the states and scrapping of Essential Commodities Act.

A Supreme Court-appointed panel to study the three farm laws, which was scrapped by Parliament in November last year, had recommended that the three legislations should not be repealed saying they would be beneficial to farmers.

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), which carried out more than a year-long agitation demanding the repeal of three contentious farm laws, did not make any submissions before the Supreme Court appointed committee on the issue, one of the members of ...

SC-appointed panel was against repealing 3 farm laws, in favour of removing Essential Commodities Act - The bilateral interactions of the committee with stakeholders demonstrated that only 13.3 per cent of the stakeholders were not in favour of 3 laws.

The three-member committee had also suggested many changes in the laws, including giving freedom to states to make Minimum Support Price (MSP) system legal.

The home secretary said the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, is authorising the states and the union territories to notify orders under the EC Act, 1955 by relaxing the requirement or prior concurrence of the central government up to June 30, 2020.

Based on the insights drawn from the fieldwork, we suggest a strategy to help the farmers earn remunerative prices. The central argument is that mandis can be strengthened to generate favourable outcomes for farmers, if farmer-oriented entities play dominant roles in them.

Quashing an order of the Deputy Commissioner (Food Supply) cancelling the licences of four women bachat groups, running a ration shop, the Bombay High Court last week pulled up the Maharashtra government for acting against the motto of empowering women. The HC accordingly, restored the licences of the bachat groups from Ahmednagar district in the state.