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Agriculture Industry
Reconstitute MSP committee to reflect PM’s assurance to farmers: Harsimrat tells Union Agri Ministeredit
The Statesman – Online
Shiromani Akali Dal leader and former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday requested Union Agriculture Minister NS Tomar to revoke the constitution of the committee on minimum support price (MSP). Demanding the Union Government to “reconstitute” the panel “with a fresh mandate to reflect the commitment made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi while scrapping the three farm laws in 2021,” the Member of Parliament (MP) from Bathinda said: “The SAD rejects the MSP Committee in its current form and the same is not acceptable to the farming community also.” “We need a fair committee in keeping with the spirit of the assurance given to Kisan Andolan (farmers’ agitation) representatives by the Prime Minister on ...
Punjab govt to hold first round of talks with farmers on February 12edit
The Indian Express – Online
Following a series of protests by the farmers’ unions for the past few months, the Punjab government has finally decided to initiate a dialogue with the peasants through ‘Sarkar-Kisan Milini’ to build confidence among them. The first dialogue between the farmers and the government will be held on Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) campus on February 12 where Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will spend time with the farmers listening to their woes. The government already held a meeting to discuss the issue on January 6. The second meeting to finalise the details would be held on January 20. “Farmers are giving us a tough time. They engage in protests and create problems. The government has ...
Budget
It is time for Union Budget to go local. See how Sikkim, Bihar and Kerala did itedit
The Print – Online
It is Budget time yet again. The experts flock to the media and meetings. They discuss what to spend on, but rarely debate how to do it. Women’s collectives and RK Laxman’s lurking ‘common man’ are absent from many such deliberations. The challenges of the last mile given India’s diversity and the community connection needed even for infrastructure development are often not the subject matter of such discourses. It is time that ‘People’s Budget’ moved into people’s hands. What we need is a bottoms-up Budget reflecting people’s needs. Sabki Yojana Sabka Vikas—the annual people’s planning campaign under the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, that was started in 2017— and the Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) and ...
Govt. Policies
New agriculture policy by March 31, says Dhaliwaledit
The Indian Express – Online
Punjab Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Tuesday said the state government has constituted an 11-member committee of agriculture experts for framing a new agricultural policy. Dhaliwal said the new agricultural policy will be ready by March 31. Interestingly, even as Punjab’s economy is largely based on agriculture, no government has been able to formulate its agriculture policy. The previous government too had taken up an exercise, but the policy was never notified. Dhaliwal said, the Punjab government has been making continuous efforts to improve welfare of the farmers and the agricultural system of the state.