-BusinessToday.in With all FMCG majors betting heavily on these reforms, their sourcing and expansion plans may now be impacted severely. The abrupt change in the government’s stance on the three controversial farm Laws may have far-reaching implications for the country’s food processing sector that involves leading fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) majors and a market larger than Rs 2.6 lakh crore. With the farm Laws are now set to get revoked, a slew of...
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Farm Laws repeal hailed but seen as no solution to the ills that have dogged the agri sector -E Kumar Sharma
-Financial Express Sukhpal Singh, professor and former chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad underlined the point that the problems of the agriculture sector cannot be resolved by the repeal of the Laws per se. The Friday morning announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of his government’s decision to begin the process to repeal the three contentious farm Laws have been generally hailed though some...
More »Modi is Wrong: Death Data Shows Protest Not of Big Farmers—Economist Lakhwinder Singh -Ajaz Ashraf
-Newsclick.in BJP wants to turn farmers into daily wage workers in the corporate sector, says the author of the report that analyses the economic status of farmers who died during the ongoing protests. On 26 November 2020, waves upon waves of farmers descended upon India’s Capital. Barricaded from entering Delhi, they pitched tents at three border crossings on the outskirts of the city. They have resolutely stayed there since then, braving the...
More »NCRB report: A status check on crimes in the country
-The Hindu The Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown resulted in a drop in traditional crimes like theft, robbery, and assault on women and children in 2020, but there was a drastic jump in disobedience to government orders, primarily arising due to violations of COVID-19 norms, official data showed. According to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on 'Crime in India – 2020', a total of 66,01,285 cognisable crimes...
More »Editorial: In a stew
-The Telegraph The Centre’s efforts to introduce reformist Laws to reinvigorate the business ecosystem can often be stymied by the states through regressive legislation Labour reform in India has always been a prickly subject and any attempt to amend legislation sparks outrage and resentment among one or the other group of stakeholders in the economy. When the Narendra Modi government crunched 29 Central Laws into four labour codes last year, India Inc...
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