Budget must address the needs of small farmers
India prepares to unveil its Budget 2025, there is a growing need to ensure that interests of small and marginal farmers are at the forefront of agricultural policymaking.
India prepares to unveil its Budget 2025, there is a growing need to ensure that interests of small and marginal farmers are at the forefront of agricultural policymaking.
In the Bengali channels, the male panellists are articulate and witty; their bonhomie reflects their familiarity despite political differences in this cosy club of only male anelists. Women analysts or politicians feature rarely. Only on topics of violence against women; sometimes, women activists are vociferous. Such a discussion on rape can well have a mother of a girl or a working woman talking about the lack of safety infrastructure in both cities and villages. To keep matters real.
Maximum governance and minimum government, the winning credo of 2014, was effortlessly replaced with ubiquitous acquiescent governance and ubiquitous government.…