The Union Budget must stop relying on disinvestment proceeds as a measure of reducing the fiscal deficit. Only then will the government be forced into looking at real questions of revenue and expenditure, says our first edit here. The second edit here says extending the scope of minimum support price will not work. The farm sector needs intervention at multiple levels. The government should allow markets to function. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up
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