Deccan Herald’s prestigious Bengaluru 2040 Summit is bringing together some of India’s most influential policymakers, corporate titans, entrepreneurs, activists, and celebrities to design a roadmap of the way forward for “India’s Silicon Valley”. Stay tuned to DH for the live updates.
Deccan Herald’s prestigious Bengaluru 2040 Summit is bringing together some of India’s most influential policymakers, corporate titans, entrepreneurs, activists, and celebrities to design a roadmap of the way forward for “India’s Silicon Valley”. Stay tuned to DH for the live updates.
Deccan Herald’s prestigious Bengaluru 2040 Summit is bringing together some of India’s most influential policymakers, corporate titans, entrepreneurs, activists, and celebrities to design a roadmap of the way forward for “India’s Silicon Valley”. Stay tuned to DH for the live updates.
updated: Mar 16 2021, 10:15 ist
Farmers have been demanding APMC reforms for 30 years, but the Modi government’s farm laws – central laws on a state subject, rammed through without consultations with either the states or even Parliament are not reforms to help farmers but at enabling a corporate takeover of the agrarian economy, veteran journalist and Magsaysay awardee P Sainath tells DH’s Anitha Pailoor.
Farmers have been in the news for a few months now. They were so for a while even in 2016, when the government said it would help double farmers’ income by 2022…
The first thing I recall is that they declared that they would double farmers’ incomes by 2022 without once clarifying whether they meant a doubling of nominal income or real income. If it’s nominal income, everybody’s incomes would double by 2022. If it’s real income, that is a very huge task. And it’s very clear that as of now if there is any difference, the difference in real income actually