How It Stacks Up
Business Today|April 21, 2019

The Good and the Bad of Modi Government's Economic Performance

How It Stacks Up

TEAM BT ANALYSES THE KEY SECTORS THAT BENCHMARK THE PERFORMANCE OF THE NDA GOVERNMENT LED BY PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI:

AGRICULTURE: Distress Signals

By March 31, over 40 million small and marginal farmers would have got 2,000 each in their bank accounts as direct income support under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) Scheme launched early this year. The scheme, which will pay 125 million farmers’ families 6,000 per year in three installments, has been projected as the government’s biggest farmer friendly initiative. The scheme is also an acknowledgement of the long persisting crisis in India’s agrarian and rural economy. The BJP’s losses in the recently concluded assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh were attributed to farmers’ ire and rural unrest despite the much publicised initiatives like the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (crop insurance), Har Khet Ko Pani (micro irrigation), e-NAM (digitally connected national agriculture produce markets), increased MSP and rural employment guarantee schemes like MNREGA. This clearly indicates that even record foodgrain production (an estimated 281.37 million tonnes in 2018/19) has not resulted in a corresponding increase in farmers’ income. The key reason was the conflicting policy objectives in the last five years.

When the Modi government took charge, its first priority was to tame runaway food inflation, which was 9.4 per cent in 2013/14. Moderation in MSP increase, imposition of stock limits to deal with cartelisation and hoarding, import of pulses and open market sale of procured foodgrain saw that there was a decline in inflation. It helped consumers but was in direct conflict with another promise in the BJP’s 2014 election manifesto – enhancing profitability in agriculture by ensuring at least 50 per cent profits over cost of production.

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