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Not sure how long you have been on this forum but it was very big picture while being tactical. People were unified in their goal for India/Bharat. It’s completely bizarre to see this kind of dismissal of strategic and critical imperatives that ensure continuity of civilization in the guise of some vague twitter and Swarajya defined right wingism with absolute ideas of what constitutes development and Hindutva. Just like the hordes on one side who shout “gaumutra and bhakt”, there are hordes on the other side who label anyone who questions environmental destruction as “leftists”. Ridiculous.Cyrano wrote:Agree with you Jarita ji. This casual contempt for everything and everyone "environmental" is a very short sighted approach. It only leaves this important field for human (and all life) sustenance and well being to air headed leftists and vested interests who are already causing more harming than global warming.
PAHAL (DBTL) yojana was one of the stepping stones of all JAM trinity etc by linking aadhar-bank accounts-LPG/Kerosene accounts-mobile numbers. It was a huge exercise in record time.Prem Kumar wrote:Can you elaborate what Pradhan achieved in the Petroleum & Natural Gas areas? Genuine question
I am agreeing with you without getting the mods fired upCyrano wrote:Not sure what your point is Jarita ji, we can discuss further on appropriate thread.
Posters aren't 'entitled' to anything on BRF.Jarita wrote: Suraj, am entitled to this gripe. Will move to the other threads.
OTOH Take Laulu Yadav (or many others) who did not have handicap of having resume...(I will rather have a good resume than not a good resume.....Resume seems well suited...but so was the resume of people like Raghuram Rajan, Manmohan Singh, etc.
)Thanks for posting this and connecting the dots Chetak bhai. It is incredible what Fadnavis achieved in one term. No wonder removing him from CM was Sena's first demand.chetak wrote: the strategy fadnavis sketched out on a napkin is now being carved in stone. No wonder the sainiks are also subdued.
Aap Chronology Samajhiye.
Co-operative Banks are main source of Black Money. Politicians are hiding money in these banks
the farm laws broke the back of the congis, khalistani jats, and the commie money collection machinery via the APMC route, this RBI strike has neutered the second channel of parallel economy. More will follow in the days to come.
dakait and the BIF shaheenbagh gang have been given the supari to thwart the Modi govt.
Suraj wrote:Posters aren't 'entitled' to anything on BRF.Jarita wrote: Suraj, am entitled to this gripe. Will move to the other threads.
Am I missing something? Arent the farm laws on hold for 2 years as per SC suggestion?the farm laws broke the back of the congis, khalistani jats, and the commie money collection machinery via the APMC route, this RBI strike has neutered the second channel of parallel economy. More will follow in the days to come.
Paul wrote:Seeing lots of tweets related to "Konganadu" appearing on twitter. Who's pushing this agenda to split up TN?
In June 2013 but modified version got launched in Nov 2014 with some strict deadlines for Aadhaar seeding of bank accounts % to be covered before launch. Final result was Dharmendra Pradhan presents PAHAL's Guinness World Record certificate to PM ModiAmbar wrote:Wasn't PAHAL launched during the UPA-2 time ?
The initiative of the Government was aimed at rationalizing subsidies based on approach to cut subsidy
leakages, but not subsidies themselves. Pahal scheme has entered into Guinness book of
World record being largest Direct Benefit Transfer scheme. Applicable subsidy is directly
transferred into the bank account of the beneficiaries.
PAHAL has helped in identifying ‘ghost’ accounts, multiple accounts and inactive accounts.
This has helped in curbing diversion of subsidised LPG to commercial purposes.
Further, Government has taken steps to rationalise the subsidy outgo by excluding such
LPG consumers or his/her having spouse taxable income of above Rs 10 lakhs from availing
LPG subsidy.
Almost 40-50 APMCs have not done any transactions or have done much reduced transactions this past year or more. This is an old article, the latest figures are much bleaker as far as middlemen go.Tanaji wrote:Am I missing something? Arent the farm laws on hold for 2 years as per SC suggestion?the farm laws broke the back of the congis, khalistani jats, and the commie money collection machinery via the APMC route, this RBI strike has neutered the second channel of parallel economy. More will follow in the days to come.
APMCs losing trade share post reforms; crop arrivals fall as traders, farmers kick middlemen out
Nanda Kasabe and Deepa Jainani
September 07, 2020
Signs of a weakening of the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) networks are now evident across major farm production centres in the country.
In Maharashtra, the traders have launched an open revolt against the APMC brass, refusing to pay the mandi taxes and opting for direct sales to bulk consumers outside the APMC ambit.
By Prabhudatta Mishra, Nanda Kasabe & Deepa Jainani
Signs of a weakening of the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) networks are now evident across major farm production centres in the country, heralding an era of unfettered market access and bolstered bargaining strength for farmers.
On June 5, the Centre promulgated three Ordinances reforming the country’s agriculture marketing, and their impact on the trade has been rather sudden and material: During the June 6-August 31 period, mandi arrivals of crops –- from fruits and vegetables to cereals and pulses – have dropped dramatically. The fall was up to 49% for fruits, 57% for vegetables and 45% for grains (see chart).
Of course, part of the decline can be attributed to the lockdown restrictions prevailing in large parts of the country and the crop damage or rotting of stored produce as in the case of onion, but the ceding of trade share by the once-all-powerful mandis indeed has much to do with the reforms. In many centres, particularly in states like Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, the farmer community, organised as farmer producer organisations/companies (FPOs/FPCs), and the small traders/aggregators are giving the APMC markets a miss. In Maharashtra, some FPOs, which FE spoke to, narrated how a definite shifting is taking place in agriculture marketing. There is also anecdotal evidence of aggregators and food processing firms buying directly from the farmers on a scale seen never before.
In Uttar Pradesh, the aggregate fall in mandi arrivals of all crops was 32% on year during June and 64% in July. The state has collected Rs 172 crore in mandi tax/cess revenue during June-July, a drop of 36% on year. The decline in arrival will likely continue in August as well and market watchers believe that it could be in the range of 65-70% in the month.
“We have closed our outlets inside the local mandi and have started sourcing 100% of our requirements directly from farmers. Traders are now approaching farmers at their villages and getting the crops delivered at mills,” said Atul Agarwal, MD of Saket Foods at Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh. Agarwal has already ordered machinery to add another rice plant to his existing three at Bahraich. “We are now looking for land to set up a food park within 20-km radius of Lucknow in which we will set up three units — solvent extraction plant, edible oil refinery and rice mill,” said Agarwal, who has also two pulses processing units.
“The traders who we deal with for purchase of raw materials like maize and jowar have now started directly purchasing from farmers/aggregators. The legal reforms have come as a big relief to us as we no longer have to re-route the maize from Bihar through the local mandi,” said Vijay Jain of Vikas Sortex Industries, a Kanpur-based cattle feed manufacturer. Since Bihar does not have APMC law, traders of other states used to route the stuff from Bihar via local mandis.
While pan-India arrivals have dropped in nine out of 11 field crops (grains, pulses etc) reviewed by FE during the period since the promulgation of the Ordinances, higher arrivals were reported for only groundnut and maize. The sharp drop in mandi arrivals of fruits and vegetables is largely due to the shift to alternative sales routes like corporate purchases and supplies to retailers by farmers. But the fall in demand due to closure of restaurants also contributed to the lower mandi arrivals of fruits and vegetables.
In Maharashtra, the traders have launched an open revolt against the APMC brass, refusing to pay the mandi taxes and opting for direct sales to bulk consumers outside the APMC ambit.
While most mandis in Maharashtra remained shut during the lockdown period, Jai Sardar Farmer Producer Company in the state’s Buldhana district reached out to farmers providing them an alternate marketing mechanism. Ashish Nafade who heads the FPC, said it procured some 300 tonnes of maize at market prices, 2,000 quintals of tur and 4,500 quintals of chana under the Price Stabilisation Scheme (PSS).
“Around 30 farmer groups are part of our FPC and through their 30 odd procurement centres are reached out nearly 1,500 farmers both at the purchase centres and at the farm gate level,” he said. The FPC also sold vegetables to housing societies in sizeable quantities, he said. The FPC has set up 1,500 tonnes of warehousing infrastructure and will soon run a pilot with Warehousing Registration and Development Authority to provide e-warehousing receipts to farmers. The FPC has set up two drying platforms for agri-produce, cleaning and grading facilities and an 80-tonne weighing bridge, Nafade said, adding that the plan is to get into online trading from the next season through tie-ups with NCDEX and registration on E-NAM as well.
Santosh Dedhe, chairman, Jaylaxmi Farmers Producer Company, Osmanabad, said his FPC has been active in the purchase of chana and tur from farmers and is also a part of the government’s PSS programme. Chetna Sinha, founder of Manndeshi Foundation, Mhaswad, Satara, a foundation which works with marginalised women farmers in Satara in Maharashtra said the Manndeshi FPO works with around 1,200 women farmers and is sourcing turmeric, rice, dal and vegetables from them.
Under a new central law on inter-state trade, farmers have the freedom to sell their produce in any market within and outside the state of their residence, without being hamstrung by the APMCs. No state levies will be imposed on trade outside the APMC mandis and the farmer is supposed to receive payment within three working days after deal. According to the new law, anyone having PAN card can trade, while the Centre reserves the right to lay down any new procedures, including mandatory prior registration.
Via another Ordinance on contract farming, farmers would get share of post-contract price surge, after they sign agreements of contract farming with private players. Also, they will have the cover of minimum guaranteed price if open market/mandi rates fall drastically. The two ordinances, along with another one through which the Essential Commodities Act has been amended easing stock holding restrictions on commodities, will together go a long way in unshackling the entire agriculture-to-food-processing-to-retailing value-chain and giving farmers the choice to sell their produce in any market across the country, analysts feel.
Though the UP government has decided to lower the total incidence of mandi tax and cesses to 1% from 2.5%, it is yet to issue the necessary order, said Rishi Kumar Bansal, a commission agent in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. “The trade will substantially shift from mandis in the long run, but mandis will continue to co-exist. The large traders and processors will appoint commission agents to buy directly from farmers on their behalf, as they cannot set up infrastructure in every village,” Bansal said. The arrivals of maize and bajra in Hathras mandi have not been impacted, he said.
“Arrivals in the mandis are definitely low as it is turning out to be a losing proposition. Those traders who are purchasing from mandis still have to pay 2% mandi tax. As trade margins are revolving between 0.5%-1%, how will they (traders who used to trade via mandis) compete against those who are paying no tax,” asked Bharat Bhushan, chairman of the Lucknow Dal and Rice Millers Association.
During April pan-India arrivals of five key rabi crops dropped 18-80% y-o-y, but in June these crops (except masur) reported 16-80% surge (y-o-y) in arrivals. Clearly, the easing of lockdown curbs boosted arrivals. Various restrictions on during lockdown (March 24-May 31), were lifted in phases from June 1 easing public movement and expanding economic activities.
In the case of wheat, the arrivals at mandis during May-June this year was about 35% lower than the year-ago period, but it improved in June (when these usually recede) registering 22% higher than the year-ago period.
“As kharif maize prices were around MSP level (Rs 1,760 per quintal) during October-December last year, there was expectation of a further increase and farmers were holding the crops. Now that maize is ruling lower at about Rs 1,270 per quintal (June-August, 2020), the farmers resumed selling, out of compulsion,” said Basavraj Patil, an aggregator in Davangere district of Karnataka.
Curiously, some farmer leaders in the northern states of Punjab, Haryana, Rasjasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have asked the government to roll back the three ordinances. “The government should tell how much farm-gate prices have increased after the promulgation of ordinances,” Sudhir Panwar, president of Kisan Jagriti Manch, said.
sudarshan wrote:So the mandi arrivals have been chopped down with an arrival.* GOI's strategy WRT the protests has been to keep stalling them while quietly changing the ground realities. Now that the farmers have seen the positive effects of cutting down the middlemen (with an arrival of course), attempts to reverse those reforms could well trigger some real "farmer protests." Good going.
* "AruvaL" (or "aruvaaL," it can even be written as "arrival" if you take care to pronounce it right) = "sickle" or "machete" in Tamil.
Yeah, that's one way to describe itchetak wrote: I said this almost a year ago, that Modi was doing just this: using the technique described by cassius clay as "rope a dope"
the hizzonners have to get up really, really early to see Modi coming.
a difficult proposition for them because their colonial legacy ensures that their "bed tea" arrives only after 0630.
. My visualization however is of the common dad technique of dealing with kids who stubbornly refuse to get out of bed. Keep up a constant stream of "get up, it's time, you have to deal with the day, don't be lazy...." All the while watching for opportunity, while the kid ignores everything and keeps on sleeping. When the kid turns a little, and the pillow becomes somewhat free, slip it away and put it in the cupboard. Then the bedsheet, bed covers, and (if the kid is sleeping on the floor) the sleeping mat also. Soon the kid has no choice but to get up, sleeping on a bare mattress - or worse - on a hard cold floor - isn't so appealing. And the best part - no sleeping kids were hurt in the process (traumatized, possibly for life - yes, but hurt - no).KL Dubey wrote:
Milords of SC have been talking about why there is no UCC bill yet for a while now. UCC is a directive principle of the constitution and UCC is part of the BJP promises in the 2019 election. Let us see when it will happen.
hizzonners may say anything.srin wrote:KL Dubey wrote:
Milords of SC have been talking about why there is no UCC bill yet for a while now. UCC is a directive principle of the constitution and UCC is part of the BJP promises in the 2019 election. Let us see when it will happen.
UCC as it is proposed is a trap. You really don't want a govt twenty years later (UPA govt or an NDA govt filled with "jinnah is secular" types) changing Hindu personal laws. If there are personal laws of some communities that are bad, their problem, no ?
Judges must know their limits, not act like emperors: Supreme Court
Judges must know their limits, not act like emperors: Supreme Court
The bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hemant Gupta took a grim view that some of the high courts in the country have developed a practice of calling government officials routinely which, it said, is against public interest as many important tasks entrusted to such officials get delayed.
Utkarsh Anand,
New Delhi,
JUL 10, 2021.
Disapproving of such orders, the top court held that it is time to reiterate that public officers should not be called to the court unnecessarily.(Reuters)
Judges must not behave like emperors, the Supreme Court observed on Friday as it condemned the practice of summoning government officials by courts “at the drop of a hat and to exert direct or indirect pressure”.
The bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hemant Gupta took a grim view that some of the high courts in the country have developed a practice of calling government officials routinely which, it said, is against public interest as many important tasks entrusted to such officials get delayed.
“Judges must know their limits. They must have modesty and humility, and not behave like emperors. The legislature, the executive and the judiciary all have their own broad spheres of operation. It is not proper for any of these three organs of the state to encroach upon the domain of another, otherwise the delicate balance in the Constitution will be upset, and there will be a reaction,” the bench said, quoting from a 2008 judgment of the Supreme Court.
“The line of separation of powers between Judiciary and Executive is sought to be crossed by summoning the officers and in a way, pressurising them to pass an order as per the whims and fancies of the court,” the court noted while hearing an appeal of the Uttar Pradesh government against an order of the Allahabad high court in a service matter.
In the case relating to posting and back wages of a medical officer of the state, the high court had passed certain orders which are being contested by the UP government before the top court. In February, the bench had stayed the order of the high court to give back wages to the medical officer but the high court did not hold its hands and still summoned the health secretary of the state in a contempt case against the state government.
Disapproving of such orders, the top court held that it is time to reiterate that public officers should not be called to the court unnecessarily. “The dignity and majesty of the court is not enhanced when an officer is called to court. Respect to the court has to be commanded and not demanded and the same is not enhanced by calling public officers,” it said.
The bench emphasised that the presence of public officers comes at the cost of other official engagements demanding their attention and may eventually take a toll on the tasks they are supposed to do for the public.
“The public officers of the executive are also performing their duties as the third limbs of the governance. The actions or decisions by the officers are not to benefit them, but as a custodian of public funds and in the interest of administration, some decisions are bound to be taken,” the court said.
The bench added that a court can always set aside a decision which does not meet the test of judicial review but summoning officers frequently “is liable to be condemned in the strongest words.”
Citing the example of the judiciary, the bench underscored that court proceedings also take time since there is no mechanism of fixed time hearing.
“The courts have the power of a pen which is more effective than the presence of an officer in the court. If any particular issue arises for consideration before the court and the advocate representing the state is not able to answer, it is advised to write such doubt in the order and give time to the state or its officers to respond,” the bench maintained.
The top court also set aside the orders of the high court initiating contempt proceedings against the state government as well as the directive to pay back wages to the medical officer. It noted that the high court was wrong in granting relief to the medical officer who did not join his posting for 13 years on the pretext of not receiving his joining order in 2002. The court said that it was not open to the medical officer to defy the order of transfer on the ground of non-communication when more than 100 medical officers were transferred by the same common transfer order and then he chose not to join where he was posted.
Sirji,Cyrano wrote:After some search, I could find a bill that paves the way for constituting a committee to draft the UCC to be presented in the parliament.
http://164.100.47.4/billstexts/lsbillte ... 2649as.pdf
But this is not the UCC itself. Is/was there a draft of the UCC ever made before ? Doesn't seem so.
People expect the Modi govt. to do arrests, interrogations, and other such kinds of "hardball" tactics when it comes to "farmers'" protests or other nuisances, but the Modi govt. prefers to play a different kind of hardball, by changing the ground realities and making the nuisances irrelevant. During the time that it takes to change the ground realities, the govt. stalls the nuisance-mongers along, pretending to play with them or even to give in to them. And the media plays it up big, as if the govt. is losing, but the govt. is playing an altogether different game. And the govt. is still winning.rsingh wrote:^^^
What is going on here. Kids sliding, hard floor , soft mattresses, bare mattresses. I did not get connection . What this has to do with strategy. You put alarm and everything is on line. Not everybody is aware about problem with kids. On school day they follow alarm on weekend let them do what they do.
Again to bring things into context, Mr. Mandaviya is couple of years younger than the Youth leader of Congress, Shri Rahul Gandhi, who has, of late, transformed himself into some kind of Greta Thunberg of the middle-aged.
Tanaji wrote:Am I missing something? Arent the farm laws on hold for 2 years as per SC suggestion?the farm laws broke the back of the congis, khalistani jats, and the commie money collection machinery via the APMC route, this RBI strike has neutered the second channel of parallel economy. More will follow in the days to come.
via@ANI 8:52 PM · Jul 8, 2021There has been 0% sale in over 40 APMCs in Madhya Pradesh. They are on the verge of collapse. APMCs in Bihar, UP have been shut down. What is this formula that APMCs will continue to run despite no sales: BKU leader Rakesh Tikait
The government understands how the politics works . In the debating and living rooms , the laws are incomplete because the rules are not promulgated. But on the ground, the presence of the law serves to legitimize the change in the political economy to such a point that the APMCs collapse and makes the passage of a the rules themselves a formality.Tanaji wrote:Thank you chetakji. I was thinking because the ordinances are on hold, there is no change in status quo. Apparently, even the suspended laws have had an effect on those states that allow procurement outside APMCs. This is an interesting side effect…
Fantastic.chetak wrote:The hizzonners': sometimes they surprise you
this is both perspicacious and profound
You may want to read the text of CAA. Many people tend to misquote it or mischaracterize it somehow. CAA is a law regularizing the citizenship of non-Muslim refugees who arrived before Dec 2014. Those who are in the neighborhood aren’t here now and clearly weren’t here in end 2014.Prem Kumar wrote:^^ Not true for CAA. The situation on the ground remains as crappy as ever for persecuted minorities from our neighborhood.
