 I'm Seema Kulkarni and I come from Maharashtra. I'm a member of the National Facilitation Team of the Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch, which is the Forum for Women's Rights, Women Farmer's Rights. I also represent an organization in Pune which is working on water issues, SOPECOM is the name. And what brings me to this conference is it's an interesting mix of people who come from the government so it's an opportunity to engage with the state, particularly on a contentious issue like land. And as part of MAKAM and SOPECOM we are extremely concerned about this whole question of land rights for women, land rights for other disadvantaged groups, but not looking at land alone but looking at a basket of rights. Looking at credit, looking at water particularly, which as a basket of rights has a lot of importance in terms of livelihoods of women. So I was here basically to talk or rather comment on the model land leasing law which the government of India has recently proposed and we welcome it in some ways. So what I spoke about briefly was at one level to welcome it because there's a lot of fellow land which in fact in many states women's groups and other disadvantaged groups are already leasing in for their subsistence and livelihoods. But a lot of these leases are informal because there is no legal space to actually formally engage in tenancy agriculture. So this is a welcome step but there are a lot of things that we feel need to be addressed, particularly if it has to be favorable for women's groups, women's collectives as well as collectives of Dalits and Adivasis. So those were some of the recommendations that we made because land is a state subject so the model law only can work as a guideline or as a framework. But what the states should do is something that I try to present here and basically what we are trying to say is that to make it more favorable there should be an accountability. The state has to intervene so it cannot simply be a mutual agreement between the owner and the person who leases in but it has to be with state presence where there is registration of these leases so that there is a security that is created. It has to move beyond just two individuals to also be inclusive of groups and collectives that are being promoted in a significant way. So those are the two major things but importantly allow access and increase banker confidence so that the law then really becomes, has some meaning and has some teeth otherwise it really will just end up as another law. So state support is something that we are strongly sort of advocating on the lines of what Kerala government has already done in terms of dovetailing a whole range of schemes that would actually bring agriculture out of its crisis. So it's not merely attributing it to a lack of leasing law but also attributing the crisis to a range of other state interventions that are needed. So we really want this sort of coming together of the land lease law and state support to get agriculture out of the crisis and get women at the forefront of agriculture and land.