Micro Economics Questions and Answer 2022

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Answer to question 1:
A movement associated with the land reform within West Bengal is known as
‘Operation Barga’. It was implemented in the year 1978 by the government of West Bengal.
The movement was initiated in order to focus on the reforms of the sharecropping system that
was addressed all around the state and consisted of 20 to 25 per cent of the overall farms
(Guha 2013). One of the main reason behind the success of Operation Barga in increasing the
total output of West Bengal and the income of the farmers was that the sharecroppers were
provided with due share as well as gave more commitments to their security. According to
Ramsundar and Shubhabrata (2015), the second reason for the success of the Operation Barga
movement was that more land was given to the farmers by Bargadars to yield more crops.
This resulted in more income to the farmers as well as more production of crops.
Answer to question 2:
The issue focuses on studying whether the implementation of Operation Barga ethically
justified or not from the standpoint of consequentialism ethics. To understand this, one
should have a clear concept of consequentialism ethics. Consequentialism states that any
event, which may take place, is judged correct or incorrect based on the outcome. It also said
that if the result of the event stands out to be good, then the event is considered as right. The
consequentialism helps to believe that an individual should stay in such a way that they can
generate more consequences that are positive (Peterson 2013).
From the case study provided, it is seen that the introduction of ‘Operation Barga' has
resulted in a positive outcome. According to the study by the World Bank, it is found that this
land reform movement is a good step taken by the West Bengal Government as it helps in the
development of the economy. The implementation of the mentioned policy helped in raising
the total output as well as helped farmers’ income to increase. According to the given case

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study, it has also been seen that due to the execution of Operation Barga, the productivity in
the agricultural sector rose around 28 per cent in the state of West Bengal. Since the
government of West Bengal became more active towards the poor farmers' requirements,
therefore, the bargadars were much more positively benefitted (Ganguly 2015).
Thus, from the consequentialist viewpoint, it can be said that the execution of
‘Operation Barga' was justified ethically. As mentioned earlier, a better event is judged based
on positive outcomes. Thus, in this case, the outcomes are positive, as already mentioned in
the previous paragraph. Thus, the positive outcomes prove to be right according to
consequentialism ethical theory. Hence, they were found to be ethically correct.
Answer to question 3:
The question will be answered to provide an argument based on deontological ethical
framework either against or in favor of ‘Operation Barga'. Deontological ethics should be
known vividly in order to provide a case for or against Operation Barga. Deontological ethics
is a branch under the normative ethical theory. The rule, which helps in differentiating the
wrong and right of an event, is done with the help of the knowledge of deontological ethics
(Hursthouse, and Crisp 2013). This kind of ethics is judged by the practical action taken by
the event. The mentioned ethic recommends not to break the rules.
The rules that were considered by the concerned land reform policy were:
 Out of the total production of crops, the Bargadars will keep around three-quarters of
it.
 If the Bargadars pays 25 per cent quota to the landowners, then they will be saved
from the thrown out from cultivating the land by the landowners, which were
provided to bargadars by the landowners.