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Can Anyone Explain What’s Wrong With Farm Bills in India?

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  Can Anyone Explain What’s Wrong With Farm Bills in India? The Kerala government has called for a special session of their assembly to protest against the farm laws that were introduced in the parliament on December 31, 2020. It's quite unclear how the farm bill is even affecting Kerala, one of the major demands of the farmer’s protest in Delhi is to do away with the amendments in APMC laws. APMC’s doesn’t exist in Kerala.  Three Farm Bills were tabled in the Monsoon session of the parliament, Essential Commodities Act (Amendment) Bill, 2020, The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, Farmers (Empowerment & Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 Let’s look into each of them separately, Essential Commodities Act (Amendment) Bill, 2020 The essential commodities act was introduced in 1955 inorder to stop hoarding of essential commodities which would result in price rise of these commodities and which in tur...

Some Doubts about the Great Indian Hartal of September 2 ,2015

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Some Doubts about the Great Indian Hartal of September 2 ,2015 Hartals are very common in India but nobody really cares to mind the demands of the hartals and the results that are gained from the protests. here i like to discuss and analyze some doubts regarding todays hartal.    1)   Why do you want to stop vehicles for a trade union hartal it is not at all related to petrol or diesel price hike. So the real intension behind the hartal is to make the life of the common man messier, isn’t it?          Protests against inflations are no rare phenomenon in Indian politics but this time where can you find inflation? Inflation rates are at an all-time low these days good rains and better harvest last year which worked in tandem with low fuel price made this happen. Credits to our government’s economic policies and RBI interventions too. To sum up inflation in the country is a null set or even negative. Some repo...