Agriculture: The missing link in India's essential services framework
Published on: April 10, 2026, 4:50 a.m. | Source: Daily Excelsior
Jagdish Chander Raina rainajagdishchander@gmail.com What a nation defines as “essential” reveals the priorities it chooses to protect. In India’s policy framework, essential services include healthcare, electricity, water supply, transport, and law enforcement-sectors rightly safeguarded for their critical role in maintaining stability. Yet, the agriculture sector that sustains them all, and ultimately sustains life itself, continues to remain outside this formal recognition. This exclusion is not a minor gap; it is a structural inconsistency. In India, where a majority of the […]
