evidence: It has been two years since an ambitious programme to convert 22,000 rural haats into Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs) was launched. But only 1,251 have come up till now. This is barely six per cent of the target. [...] Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of GrAMs completed till date — 245, 163, 127, 111, and 106 respectively, the minister’s reply noted. [...] Jaitley had said during the budget speech: "In these GrAMs, physical infrastructure will be strengthened using the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and other government schemes. These GrAMs, electronically linked to e-NAM and exempted from regulations of APMCs, will provide farmers facility to make direct sale to consumers and bulk purchasers."