
Budget 2023 | SKM, activists criticise allocations to agriculture, food security
The HinduThe Samyukt Kisan Morcha, the umbrella organisation of more than 300 farmers’ outfits and the Right to Food Campaign, a platform for activists working on food and nutritional security, termed the Budget as an attack on farmers and the poor. They said in separate statements that the allocations for the agriculture sector and food subsidy had been reduced considerably in the Budget, presented in the Parliament on Wednesday. The Budget was silent on doubling farmers’ income, the SKM said adding that the Centre “dishonestly stopped” giving data on the income of farmers and out of the targeted increase in the income of ₹13,000, only ₹4,400 had been achieved, that is only one-third of the target, the SKM said. “At a time of deep economic distress, this scheme gave some relief to farmers but now even that is being constricted,” the SKM said. Social spending reduced The Right to Food Campaign said it was shocked to see that the Budget reduced the government spending on the social sector to a huge extent.
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