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This is the year 2022, the target year the PM himself had set way back in 2016 for doubling farmers’ income. But like his other promises, this too was a mere jumla, the agricultural sector crisis continues, and so, predictably, this year’s budget speech makes no mention of this promise.
At a time when India seems to be ready to hand over its railways, highways, ports and pipelines to private hands on lease, these frauds come as a rude reminder of how the government is gambling with the savings of ordinary citizens.
The 2022–23 union budget should have spelt out an economic strategy for reviving the economy and tackling the unemployment and poverty emergency gripping the country. But the FM does not even show cognizance of the problem.
Fifth and last part of a long article that discusses how the commons in England were gradually driven out of existence, the small farms engrossed, the land enclosed, and the commoners forcibly removed. This part discusses the mass resistance to privatization and dispossession.
The economy is in such dire straits: there is an urgent need for a strategy that promotes economic revival, while providing relief to the poor, and contributing to an abatement of inflation. However, the 2022-23 union budget does not even show cognizance of the problem.
The Economic Survey, in keeping with the trend in recent years, paints a rosy picture of the economy, while sidestepping issues that are of concern to most Indians, still suffering in the wake of the pandemic. In keeping with the recent trend, it showers more management-style jargon.
Violence over identity and religion is something Indians are (unfortunately) used to. But on Tuesday, the country saw something rarer: riots over jobs.
Gandhi was aware that intellectual labour was necessary for the culture of the mind and accepted the necessity of a division of labour, but not the idea that bodily labour had to be confined to one class and intellectual labour to another class.
Godavari Dange developed a model of farming that enabled vulnerable women farmers in drought-struck Marathwada to stay food secure. Her life story captures the enormity of the region’s crisis, as well as the possibility of sustainable and resilient agriculture.
Recent economic events make it clear there are two Indias. Which one should the upcoming Budget speech address?
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