evidence: To give a further thrust to agricultural marketing, in the Union Budget 2018–19, the government declared its intention to develop and upgrade rural haats/shandies into GRAMs, discussed next. [...] Ensure that the GRAMs are exempted from APMC regulations and linked to e-NAM to provide farmers the facility to make direct sales to retail and bulk consumers. [...] The provisions under the APLM and the creation of GRAMs, among other things, were to provide a base for the creation of a unified national market, also referred to as the National Agriculture Market (NAM), discussed below.