: Repeal ‘fundamentally harmful’ farm laws, 10 economists tell Modi government amid deadlock #IndiaNEWS Amid the continuing standoff between farmers’ groups and the central government over the

Repeal ‘fundamentally harmful’ farm laws, 10 economists tell Modi government amid deadlock #IndiaNEWS
Amid the continuing standoff between farmers’ groups and the central government over the farm laws, 10 economists from India’s most reputed research institutions on Thursday wrote a letter to Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar against the reforms, The Indian Express reported. They have demanded that the Centre immediately repeal the laws.The economists who wrote the letter include Professors D Narasimha Reddy (retired), formerly of the University of Hyderabad; Kamal Nayan Kabra (retired), formerly of the Indian Institute of Public Administration and the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi; KN Harilal from the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, and member of the Kerala State Planning Board; and R Ramakumar from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. The economists, who have for long engaged with agricultural policy matters, said that the three laws were not in the best interests of small and marginal farmers, calling it “fundamentally harmful??? in their implications.The letter said:“We do believe that improvements and changes are required in the agricultural marketing system for the benefit of millions of small farmers, but the reforms brought by these Acts do not serve that purpose. They are based on wrong assumptions and claims about why farmers are unable to get remunerative prices, about farmers not having freedom to sell wherever they...Read more

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