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False narratives about new farm laws hurting farmers' interests: Rajiv Kumar SECTIONS Last Updated: Dec 28, 2020, 05:31 PM IST Share Synopsis As farmers continue their protests demanding repealing of the three new laws, Kumar also emphasised that continued negotiations with protesting farmers is of course the way forward. Kumar emphasised that continued negotiations with protesting farmers is of course the way forward. False narratives about the new farm laws are doing significant harm to the interest of farmers as well as the economy in general, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on...

False narratives around farm laws hurting farmers' interests, economy: Rajiv Kumar As farmers continue their protests demanding repealing of the three new laws, Kumar also emphasised that continued negotiations with protesting farmers is of course the way forward PTI | December 28, 2020 | Updated 19:46 IST Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar False narratives about the new farm laws are doing significant harm to the interest of farmers as well as the economy in general, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Monday and expressed his disappointment at some economists changing their stan...

Text Size: A+ New Delhi: Kaushik Basu, one of India’s top economists, has been critical of the three new farm laws passed by the Modi government, calling them “flawed” and “detrimental to farmers”. But turns out, Basu, as India’s Chief Economic Advisor in the UPA government, had favoured similar if not the same reforms. Over the last few days, Basu has trashed the reforms on Twitter and also in a newspaper article. “Our agriculture regulation needs change but the new laws will end up serving corporate interests more than farmers,” he said in a tweet. Iâ�...

NEW DELHI: On a day the Supreme Court stepped in to help resolve the stand-off over the new farm laws, the government doubled down on its outreach to protesters, with agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar seeking to demolish the “wall of lies erected by vested political interests” to mislead farmers about the provisions of the trio of farm enactments. In an 8-page letter which was flagged by PM Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah, the minister seemed to target Congress, Left-aligned farmers’ unions, AAP, Akali Dal, experts “who have gone back on their advocacy for the same ...

Farm Follies: ‘Yes, But’ Economists Like Kaushik Basu Are Allowing Politics To Infect Their Critiques by R Jagannathan - Dec 18, 2020 09:22 AM Kaushik Basu and Nirvikar Singh Snapshot Kaushik Basu supports the idea of reform but not this specific one, and none of his criticisms is more than partially valid, and some are outright wrong. Here’s why. There are simply too many 'yes-but' economists trying to make the ideal the enemy of the good when it comes to the Narendra Modi government’s farm sector reforms. One of them is Cornell University’s Kaushik Basu, who was...