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. [...] To strengthen marketing infrastructure, the GOI, with NABARD, created an Agricultural Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) with corpus of Rs. 2000 crore to upgrade 10,000 GRAMs and 585 APMCs. As for March 2019, the AMIF fund is still to play out and most states have not even identified potential rural haats to be developed into GRAMs (Source: Agricoop). [...] The government approved the setting up of the National Agriculture Market (NAM) through the Agri-Tech Infrastructure Fund (ATIF) on 1 July 2015, with a budget of Rs. 200 crore. The project was to be implemented in the period 2015–18. PM Modi launched e-NAM on 14 April 2016, in eight states—Gujarat, Telangana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand, covering 21 markets. The aim was to achieve higher transparency in the farming sector, increase farmers’ income and provide them access to a larger number of buyers from within and outside the state.