MSP assure would go away little or no cash for different growth & social targets: Govt officers

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The officers underscored the impracticality of implementing such laws, highlighting that the full worth of agricultural produce within the nation throughout FY20 stood at Rs 40 lakh crore, whereas the market worth of the 24 crops underneath the MSP regime was estimated at Rs 10 lakh crore.Procuring this quantity of produce from the federal government’s complete expenditure of Rs 45 lakh crore for 2023-24 would severely restrict assets accessible for different essential growth and social aims important for India’s financial progress, they argued.

For the upcoming fiscal yr, the federal government has allotted Rs 11,11,111 crore for capital expenditure, primarily directed in the direction of infrastructure initiatives like roads and railways. “It (Rs 10 lakh crore) is greater than the annual common expenditure on infrastructure within the final seven fiscal years (Rs 67 lakh crore, between 2016 and 2023). Clearly, a common MSP demand doesn’t make any financial or fiscal sense,” the TOI report quoted an official as saying.

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The officers, nevertheless, stated that the federal government is able to speak with the farmer teams.Notably, Union Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda on Tuesday stated a regulation guaranteeing Minimal Help Value (MSP) on crops can’t be introduced in a rush with out consulting all stakeholders and urged the protesting farmer teams to have a structured dialogue with the federal government on the problem.Munda is a part of the ministerial delegation that held two rounds of dialogue with the farmers’ teams, together with Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political), Kisan Mazdoor Morcha in Chandigarh, to resolve their considerations.

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Moreover a authorized assure for MSP, the farmers are demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Fee’s suggestions for farmer welfare, pensions for farmers and farm laborers, and debt waiver, amongst others.

The farmers are additionally searching for withdrawal of police instances and “justice” for victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstating the Land Acquisition Act 2013, withdrawing from the World Commerce Group, and compensating households of farmers who died through the earlier agitation.

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