“Farm Bills Will Create a Vacuum That May Result in Utter Chaos”

The Wire brings you a perspective on the recent legislations on agriculture which argues that the measures instead of liberating the farmer will only result in expanding the stranglehold of the non-state monopolies. And the government’s move is akin to “gift-wrapping” public assets to the corporates. “Free market is not freedom”, it asserts.

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India’s agrarian distress: How dissent has been on the rise

In the wake of the farmer protests erupting across the country against the Farm Bills passed by parliament, Down to Earth finds that the agitations are not a recent phenomenon and there have been at least 50 major farmer protests in 20 states in the past nine months alone. This is a result of issues such as continued indebtedness, lack of effective crop insurance and the lack of remunerative prices.

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Four Highlights Of The Labour Code Consolidation

Swarajya argues that the factor market reforms initiated by the government will formalise the economy and free Indian companies from archaic laws which had forced them to sub-scale. The reform recognises and is in tandem with the realities of the modern-day labour structures, it argues.

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Ground Report | Farmers agitation in Punjab | Agriculture Bills | किसानों का बड़ा प्रदर्शन

Asiaville covers the farmers protests from the ground in Punjab and Haryana. They speak to protesting farmers who voice their opposition to the government’s move and express anxiety that these are the first steps to abrogating the MSP and dismantling the APMC structure.

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क्यों ये तीन विधेयक कुछ के लिए किसानों की आजादी हैं तो बाकियों के लिए उनकी मौत के फरमान

While the government calls the farm bills the ‘suraksha kavach’ (safety armour) for the farmers, the opposition has calls it ‘mauth ka farmaan’ (death warrant), Satyagrah weighs in on the debate.

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