Falling in Line

Vol IX No 12
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Grams Econweekly Editor Krishna Raj Assistant Editors Rajani X Desai, Jawid Lalq Editorial Staff Colin da Souza. Ashok Rao, A A Dalvi THESE are tragic days for the Agricultural Prices Commission. A certain emasculation has taken place in its physical strength, but that really is not the central issue. Due to a series of decisions taken by the government since the autumn of 1972, the Commission's functioning has of late been made altogether precarious. Last season, what the Commission recommended as procurement prices for the kharif cereals were converted into a set of support prices by the politicians. The procurement prices suggested by it were considerably higher than what they were in the previous year. But the chief ministers