Deliberative policy-making is the cornerstone of democratic governance. The present document aims to embody this maxim by bringing the felt need of peoples and vulnerable communities, front and centre to further inform broad-based and inclusive processes. This  document  has  been compiled through extensive discussions in multiple states with various communities, community-based organisations, civil society organisations and people’s movements. It represents the concerns and needs of people from marginalized communities such as Dalits, tribal peoples nomadic tribes, de-notified tribes (NT/DNT), minorities and focusing on women among them, who form the multitudes of farmers and agricultural labourers, fishworkers and rural and urban informal workers in the country.

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