Years of unheeded reports: Why Ashok Gulati didn't join govt's agri panel

Gulati is perfectly correct when he says that several reports already exist on reforming the agriculture sector

Noted economist and former chairman of the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP) Ashok Gulati has reportedly declined to become part of yet another government panel constituted by the NITI Aayog on reforming the country’s agriculture sector by 2020 on the grounds that unless recommendations made by earlier such committees are implemented, another such exercise is useless and futile.

Gulati is not wrong when he says several such reports already exist on reforming the agriculture sector. 

Under the current NDA government, a panel was formed to reform food management when the part came to power in 2014. It suggested lowering