Reforms are now more likely to be implemented at the state level BJP Governments were expected to lead, but efforts to bring about market integration would suffer in the absence of uniformity. Moreover, with agricultural reforms now likely to be piecemeal, the pace may slow for those farmers who really stand to benefit in the short to medium term.
Anil Ghanwat, one of the members of the Supreme Court-appointed Committee on Controversial Agricultural Laws, said, “No government will now dare to bring about comprehensive reforms in the agriculture sector in the coming 50 years and most of the farmers will now remain poor.” , told TOI.
Terming the decision “quite unfortunate”, Ghanvat, president of the Swatantra Bharat Paksha (political wing of Maharashtra-based group Shetkari Sangathan), said, “It (the move to repeal) is the most regressive step. PM Modi Because he chose politics over the welfare of farmers. If the government had to repeal it, why would it wait so long?”
However, government sources drew a parallel with the abandonment of land acquisition amendments in 2014-15 and said that solutions were found through state-level changes. He said the Supreme Court had stayed the reforms in any case and the agitation was only creating more doubts.
Ghanwat, who was on his way to Delhi, said he would meet the other two members of the committee – Ashok Gulati and PK Joshi – on Monday and take a decision on making public the report of the panel submitted to the Supreme Court in March. Stating that those recommendations could help the new committee, which the PM said would be set up to look into various aspects of farming and issues related to the Minimum Support Price (MSP).
in officers Ministry of Agriculture And other advocates of reforms also feel that the process will now revert to past practices of forming panels one after the other without any results.
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