Finance
By: Shree1news, 12 DEC 2020
Amid the ongoing standoff between the Centre and the farmers who are agitating in opposition to the three new farm laws for the last 16 days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday championed the continued reforms and stated these will open new avenues in front of the farmers. “We had seen walls between the agriculture sector and other areas associated with it – be it agriculture infrastructure, food processing, storage or cold chain.We don’t want walls. We want bridged. All partitions and obstacles are being eliminated now. After reforms, farmers will get new markets, choices and extra advantages of know-how. This in turn will bring in more investment,” Modi stated delivering the keynote deal with on the 93rd Annual General Meeting of FICCI.
“The cold storage infrastructure will probably be modernised. This may lead to extra investments within the agriculture sector. Farmers will be benefitted the most out of it,” Modi stated. His comments come at a time when thousands of protesters have laid siege to Delhi demanding an immediate withdrawal of the farm legal guidelines as they concern the new laws will corporatise farming and can benefit corporates at the cost of farmers.
Batting for the involvement of all stakeholders in all sectors, PM Modi stated, “If the government is assured, then it doesn’t get threatened to make space for different players. This has been happening in India for the last six years.”
This isn’t the primary time after the large agitation of the farmers started that PM Modi touched the problem of farm legal guidelines. In his last Mann ki Baat speech, PM Modi had stated, “Parliament has recently passed farm reform laws after rigorous brainstorming. These reforms have not only broken shackles of farmers but have additionally given new rights and opportunities to them.”
The theme of FICCI’s annual convention this year is ‘Inspired India’, the Prime Minister’s Office’s (PMO) stated on Friday. PM Modi also launched the FICCI Annual Expo 2020. This will provide an opportunity to exhibitors from across the globe to showcase their products and advance their business prospects, the PMO had added.
Over the three days of the convention, more than 10,000 delegates from the world over and Union ministers Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, S Jaishankar and Ravi Shankar Prasad will address the conference.
Source: A-N
