-TheWire.in Farmers may have to pay 18% GST on the income earned through corporate farming, which the new laws are expected to promote. Like a retro Bollywood movie with multiple double acts and plot twists, the controversy surrounding the three farm laws is not just limited to the specific legislations per se, but there is more to it, much more sinister. When the Income Tax Act, 1995 (ITA) and Central Goods and...
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Marches in states to back tractor rally, slam farm laws
-The Indian Express Surat police filed four cases against 93 people, including leaders of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti and the Congress, after they took out a Tiranga Yatra on tractors and two-wheelers to support the Farmers’ protest, and to demand withdrawal of criminal cases against Patidar leaders. Marches were carried out in several parts of the country by Farmers and trade unions to express solidarity with the tractor rally in Delhi,...
More »‘Delhi is our capital too’: A blow-by-blow account of the Farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day -Vijayta Lalwani & Supriya Sharma
-Scroll.in Attention came to be fixed on protestors hurling flags on top of the Red Fort, eclipsing scenes of Delhi residents welcoming Farmers to the city. When the first wave of tractors triumphantly drove down the national highway north of Delhi around 9 am on January 26, the most conspicuous symbol was the Indian tricolour. It dominated all other flags – the saffron-coloured Nishan Sahib, the flag of the Sikh Khalsa Panth,...
More »Neglect of small, marginal Farmers: Why little space for livestock in India's agri-budgets -Sanjib Pohit
-Counterview.net It seems that that there is a complete breakdown of trust between the Union government and Farmers. The multiple rounds of negotiations, offer to negotiate clause by clause of the farms’ bills fail to convince the Farmers. As a result, there is no sign that the sit-in by the Farmers around Delhi’s border would go up in the near future. It appears to have tuned into a question of ego...
More »Climate crisis lies at the heart of farmer protests in India -Omair Ahmad
-IndiaClimateDialogue.net Protests by Indian Farmers against three new farm laws have deep roots in income insecurity, which is driven by changing rainfall patterns and incentives that promote the overuse of water The protests by Indian Farmers against three laws initially passed as ordinances have gone from sporadic in August 2020 to the biggest peaceful civil society protest in the world. Despite 11 rounds of talks and the creation of a committee by...
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