Modi govt has made actual legal changes to implement its policy statements on agriculture reforms. It should now plug loopholes to realise their full potential.
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Let’s wait and watch. Hopefully this will not turn out to be like power sector ‘reforms’ where actually nothing was reformed. This government’s record doesn’t inspiremuch confidence. For the past 70+ years governments in India have largely succeeded in making a complete mess of it’s most important sector agriculture.
Excellent article. I suspect as usual the vested interest of the bureaucracy is in fault. The law changes seems to be thought by economists but lawyers and bureaucrats wanted their cuts to be maintained.
if even after amendment of the ECA govts. can impose unpredictable impositions, thanks to some vaguely defined terms and conditions, then what new actually has been done. Let’s wait n watch till the seasonal spike in prices of onion n tomatoes.
Let’s wait and watch. Hopefully this will not turn out to be like power sector ‘reforms’ where actually nothing was reformed. This government’s record doesn’t inspiremuch confidence. For the past 70+ years governments in India have largely succeeded in making a complete mess of it’s most important sector agriculture.
Excellent article. I suspect as usual the vested interest of the bureaucracy is in fault. The law changes seems to be thought by economists but lawyers and bureaucrats wanted their cuts to be maintained.
if even after amendment of the ECA govts. can impose unpredictable impositions, thanks to some vaguely defined terms and conditions, then what new actually has been done. Let’s wait n watch till the seasonal spike in prices of onion n tomatoes.