This has become a six monthly joke. Once again the government is trying to pass off a routine and meagre annual increment as historic bonanza to farmers.
This thread explains why the claim is bogus. 1/6
Governments table hides the increase in percentage terms.
The annual increment is between 1% (maize, moong) to 5% (tur, urad, groundnut).
Compare this increase to annual inflation in petrol (33%) and diesel (22%) and you know why this MSP increase is actually a reduction. 2/6
The claim of offering 50% over the cost of production is bogus.
This table shows what the MSP should have been last year if the government had offered 50% over comprehensive cost(C2) as recommended by swaminathan commission.
(This year C2 cost not released by the govt yet) 3/6
The claim of offering 50% over partial cost (A2+ FL) is correct but there is nothing special about it.
The previous government also offered similar margin for most crops, in fact better than the one offer by this one in many cases. 4/6
This table shows the correct comparison: average annual increase offered by this and the previous government.
Accept Ragi, Nigerseed and Bajra the annual MSP increment in remaining 11 crops is worse during NDA2 than during UPA 2. 5/6
That leaves the last jumala: doubling of farmers income. this article explains why this is the biggest fraud played on the Indian farmers. 6/6 End of thread
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Q: Tickets are not being sold at counter but are paid in advance?
A: Yes, not being sold at the station to avoid crowd, but being sold through the Govt. That is why it says "Advance" payment.
Where they pay makes no difference to the worker. 9/n
Q: Is Central Govt paying 85% of the ticket price?
A: No. This is a classical distraction to confuse everyone. This is a notional subsidy (usually 53%, but now 85% due to lesser numbers etc) built into passenger fares. There is NO concession on actual ticket price. 10/n
Q: Won't the Railways go in losses?
A: Yes, it would add a small amount to Railway's losses. It is a PSU, its objective is not just to make profit.
Railway ran free trains for Nepalese citizens after 2015 earthquake. Why can't it do so for Indian citizens? 11/n
Here is a story of moral cussedness, political apathy and spin doctoring.
Migrant workers are made to pay for their evacuation.
Govt passes the buck to state governments.
Ruling party uses spins & fakes to wriggle out.
This thread exposes the truth. 1/n #FreeTrains4Workers
Let's cut through the clutter and focus on three simple questions: 1. Who is eligible to use Shramik express trains? 2. How much fare does the railway charge? 3. Who pays this fare?
BJP spin doctors have tried to bluff their way through on all these.
Q1. Who is eligible?
Impression: Every migrant worker can use these to go back to native place.
Truth: Only persons temporarily stranded. Workers can't use it to go from workplace back to native place. Shramik trains are not for migrant workers!
See this MHA letter 3/n
This budget is a declaration of war on agriculture and Indian farmers.
This year every economist agreed on putting money in the hands of rural India so as to start a virtuous cycle.
This thread on how FM not only disregarded them, she launched 3-prong attack on agri.
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1. LOW PRICES
FCI subsidy(for procurement and NFSA):
2019-20: 1,51,000 cr
2020-21: 75,000 cr
PM Aasha(MSP procurement)
2019-20:1,500 cr
2020-21: 500 cr
MIS/Price Support
2019-20:3,000 cr
2020-21:2,000 cr
Effect: farmers wont get remunerative prices as procurement gets hit
2/4
2. HIGHER INPUT PRICE
Fertilizer subsidy:
2019-20:79,996 cr
2020-21: 71,309 cr
Effect: cost of production will go up, especially when fertilizer prices have seen a hike in global and international markets
3/4
Youth throughout the country have shown up today in overwhelming numbers to stand for a democratic, secular & republic India
Any effort to divide them only makes them stronger.
Here is a thread of nationwide youth protests in solidarity with #BharatBandh today
That current market price are well below MSP is now accepted by media and admitted by govt officials.
Yet in this thread I respond to this critique of our data (not to personal innuendos, political rhetoric) in the hope of settling this point. opindia.com/2018/10/fact-c…
Let's take first commodity in our table: Bajara
Step 1: we take arrival data of each state for 1-24 oct from official AgriMarknet website (screenshot),
Step2: we use this to compute total national arrival for this period (attached table)
Step3: we take monthly average price for October for each state from same source (it's already weighted by arrivals for each day and each mandi). Today's screenshot attached.
We don't use national average price from this table as that cell is simple, not weighted, average.