OTC with Siraj Hussain, Ashok Gulati & Mekhala Krishnamurthy

15 December, 2020 5:00 pm IST

Watch this in depth conversation moderated by Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta with Siraj Hussain, Former Union Secretary Agriculture; Ashok Gulati Infosys chair professor at ICRIER, and Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Associate Professor at Ashoka University on the three new farm laws.

The panel discusses how the three new farm laws bring in much needed reforms in the agricultural sector- but also stress that the reforms needed broad based consultation and should have been brought in gradually. While the government has proposed amendments in writing to allay farmers’ fears, filling the trust deficit remains the challenge for the government.

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