INDIA
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the changes are not against agricultural markets and things will continue to be as they were before.
Amid the ongoing political tussle between the BJP-led Centre and the opposition parties over the agriculture bills, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gave an assurance that the system of providing Minimum Support Price (MSP) will continue as earlier.
Speaking at the foundation stone laying event of nine infrastructure development projects in Bihar, the prime minister said that the changes are not against agricultural markets and things will continue to be as they were before.
"I want to assure every farmer that the system of MSP will continue as it used to happen in the past. Likewise, as in every season, a campaign is run for buying produce by the government, that too will continue to run," he said.
मैं देश के प्रत्येक किसान को इस बात का भरोसा देता हूं कि MSP की व्यवस्था जैसे पहले चली आ रही थी, वैसे ही चलती रहेगी।
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 21, 2020
इसी तरह हर सीजन में सरकारी खरीद के लिए जिस तरह अभियान चलाया जाता है, वो भी पहले की तरह चलते रहेंगे: PM
"The biggest proof of it is the figures for purchases made by the government during the past five years and the purchases made prior to five years before 2014. If I only talk about the oilseeds and pulses then the purchases by the government have increased by 24 per cent," Modi added.
बीते 5 साल में जितनी सरकारी खरीद हुई है और 2014 से पहले के 5 साल में जितनी सरकारी खरीद हुई है, उसके आंकड़े इसकी गवाही देते हैं।
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 21, 2020
मैं अगर दलहन और तिलहन की ही बात करूं तो पहले की तुलना में, दलहन और तिलहन की सरकारी खरीद करीब 24 गुणा अधिक की गई है: PM
He also assured that these policies were not anti-Mandis and stated that his government was committed to their modernisation.
Modi stressed that even during the coronavirus pandemic phase there was record purchase made by the government.
"For this year's Rabi produce, including wheat, rice, oilseeds and pulses, the farmers were paid Rs 1 lakh 13 thousand crores in MSP. This figure is thirty per cent more than last year's," he pointed out.
The prime minister also spoke about how over the years a nexus had formed in the country which was reaping benefits from the hard work of farmers and was now trying to instigate them against the new reforms introduced by the Centre.
Modi said this after inaugurating nine infrastructure development projects for Bihar, apart from the launch of "Ghar Tak Fibre" project which aims to provide internet connectivity to villages across the country through optical fibres, through video conferencing.
"The new agriculture reforms has given freedom to every farmer in the country to sell their produce anywhere. If he gets more profits in the mandi, he will sell it there. If apart from this he gets more profit anywhere else then he is not obstructed from selling them there too," Modi said.
"The earlier system of selling the produce, the laws which existed, had kept the farmers' hands tied. Acting under the garb of these laws such powerful groups had formed in the country which have benefitted from farmers' misery. How long should have this allowed to go on ?" he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated nine infrastructure development projects, worth Rs 14,000 crores for Bihar. He also inaugurated the Ghar Tak Fibre Project under which all 45,945 villages of Bihar will be connected through optical fibre internet service.
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