Farm Ordinances Passed Without NITI Aayog Appraising 'High-Powered' CMs Panel Report: RTI
Minister of State for Food Danve Raosaheb Dadarao had stated before Lok Sabha that the high-powered committee had approved the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, a claim denied by the Punjab CM.
Farmers at the Singhu border, Saturday, January 16, 2021. Photo: PTI/Arun Sharma
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New Delhi: The Farm ordinances â which consequently paved the way for the three controversial farm laws in September 2020 â were promulgated and introduced in parliament in June 2020 without the report of the high powered committee of Chief Ministers being appraised by the Governing Council of NITI Aayog, a reply by the planning commission to a Right to Information query has revealed.