{
 "no": 11,
 "id": "case-11",
 "sk": 20200927,
 "year": 2020,
 "date": "Sep 2020. Repealed Nov 2021",
 "cat": "Policy misfire",
 "sev": "amber",
 "title": "Farm laws. Rammed through, then repealed",
 "stamp": "Reversed after a year of protest",
 "human": {
  "v": "~<b>700</b> protesting farmers reported dead over the year-long agitation",
  "est": true
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "A year of blockades and lost trade; the dead long unacknowledged",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "Three laws to deregulate farm markets were passed by a contested voice vote amid uproar, with no real consultation of the states (agriculture is largely a state subject) or of farmers.",
 "dodge": "Farmers protested for a year over fears for assured procurement, and hundreds died at the protest sites. The government finally repealed all three laws, then framed the retreat as a failure to explain the reform, never as an error of substance or process, and was slow even to acknowledge the dead.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Narendra Singh Tomar",
   "r": "Agriculture Minister"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government said the laws would have let farmers sell anywhere and drawn in investment.",
 "alleg": "Farm unions alleged the laws favoured large agri-corporates, a <em>contested political allegation</em>; the repeal followed the protests, not any adjudicated finding.",
 "alt": "Legislate farm reform with the states and farmers at the table, put MSP on firmer footing, and pilot changes that can be tested and trusted.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "Farm Laws Repeal Bill 2021, full text (PRS)",
   "url": "https://prsindia.org/files/bills_acts/bills_parliament/2021/Farm%20Laws%20Repeal%20Bill,2021.pdf",
   "tier": 1,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20231212155123/https://prsindia.org/files/bills_acts/bills_parliament/2021/Farm%20Laws%20Repeal%20Bill,2021.pdf"
  },
  {
   "label": "Govt: no record of protest deaths; SKM says 670+",
   "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/india/record-farmers-death-protest-compensation-parliament-7650247/",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20230530013712/https://indianexpress.com/article/india/record-farmers-death-protest-compensation-parliament-7650247/"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 700
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-11/"
}