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Topic: MSP

The budget was insipid, lacked courage, and the math was all fuzzy

Praveen Chakravarty -
The budgeted expenditure doesn’t account for various schemes & announcements that have been made, such as the increase in MSP or the healthcare coverage scheme.

Talk Point: Has Modi just delivered a safe, middle path budget in an election year?

ThePrint Team -
Experts weigh in on whether Budget 2018 appears to be reluctant to take big risks in the run-up to the looming national elections.

Pre-budget talks centred around farm sector growth, job creation: Senior BJP leader

Pragya Kaushika -
RSS affiliates offered suggestions to Modi govt on minimum support price, direct tax and employment generation during pre-budget discussions.

Knee-jerk reactions by the government will not help farmers, go for institutional reforms

P. Chengal Reddy -
In our country there is no co-ordination between farmers, government, exporters and researchers.

If we continue to raise MSP, industry will source raw material from international sources

Vijay Sardana -
Old concepts and old ideologies are not delivering in today’s scenario and this has led to unrest in farmers as well as consumers.

Price controls at such a scale will bring bureaucracy at every mandi, breed corruption

Siraj Hussain -
Price controls at such massive scale would require intervention of bureaucracy at the level of every mandi and would breed corruption everywhere.

Modi’s war on inflation has become a war on farmers

Aruna Urs -
Is the Swaminathan committee recommendation on MSP a practical solution to farmers grievances in India?

Swaminathan proposals, the crux of farmers’ tussle with the Centre over MSP

Swapna Merlin -
A national panel was formed in 2004 under M.S. Swaminathan, which recommended an MSP 50 per cent higher than cost, but Centre refused in 2015.
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