{"id":196641,"date":"2022-07-21T18:53:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=196641"},"modified":"2022-07-21T18:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:23:26","slug":"explained-msp-and-govt-panels-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-msp-and-govt-panels-task\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: MSP and govt panel\u2019s task"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cExplained: MSP and govt panel\u2019s task\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 20th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India has constituted a committee to look into the issues of minimum support price(MSP), Natural Farming and Crop diversification.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why has the committee been set up?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been constituted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare as a follow-up to an announcement by the Prime Minister when he declared the government\u2019s intention to withdraw the three farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The protesting farm unions had demanded a legal guarantee on MSP based on the Swaminathan Commission\u2019s \u2018C2+50% formula\u2019 (C2 is a type of cost incurred by farmers;). This was in addition to their demand for repeal of the three farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the composition and purpose of the committee?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/panel-on-msp-natural-farming-setup\/\"><b>Click Here to read about it<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Tenure of the committee: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government does not specify the tenure of the committee. No deadline has been given for submitting its suggestions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why have the protesting farm unions opposed this committee?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Firstly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this committee includes members who supported the now-repealed farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the terms and references of the committee do not mention the legal guarantee to MSP. Instead, it mentions making MSP more effective and transparent.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Minimum Support Price(MSP)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/legalising-msp-challenges-and-way-forward-explained-pointwise\/\"><b>Click Here to read about it<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cExplained: MSP and govt panel\u2019s task\u201d published in Indian Express on 20th July 2022. What is the News? The Government of India has constituted a committee to look into the issues of minimum support price(MSP), Natural Farming and Crop diversification.\u00a0 Why has the committee been set up?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-msp-and-govt-panels-task\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: MSP and govt panel\u2019s task<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-196641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}