In what can be called a cruel joke on suffering farmers in Madhya Pradesh, some of them are getting pennies in the name of loan waiver. In a shocking report coming in from Bhopal, a farmer named Shivpal Kataria, who was expecting a complete farm loan waiver, was shocked to see Rs[Read More…]
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Loan waiver alongside ensuring remunerative price for farmers’ produce is the key: AIKS chief
Kolkata: Farm loan waiver scheme alone would not be sufficient to alleviate farmers’ distress across states and ensuring remunerative prices for their produce should be coupled with it so that they do not get into indebtedness further, a leader of peasants’ movement in India said here on Thursday. One of[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi’s tweet announcing farmer loan waiver gets over 50000 likes in 16 hours
After the governments of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh waived off farmer loans within 2 days of swearing in, the Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter to share the news with his followers. The party chief in the run-up to the elections in the states of MP, Chhattisgarh and[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi slams PM Modi, says “Wont let PM rest till he waives farm loans”
In a press conference outside Parliament on Tuesday, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi once again hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not waiving off farmers loan. Citing the example of his new Chief Ministers who waived off the farm loans within few hours after their oath taking, Congress’s Rahul[Read More…]
Congress farm loan waiver promise proved game changer in Chhattisgarh
By Sujeet Kumar Raipur: The Congress, which was out of power for 15 years in mineral-rich Chhattisgarh, staged a stunning comeback on Tuesday, courtsey a key promise to waive off bank loans to millions of farmers who were reeling under steep debts. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bit the dust[Read More…]
Working on modalities, will announce farm loan waiver soon: HD Kumaraswamy
Bengaluru: Committed towards waiving farm loans, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today said that his government is working on the modalities of farm loan waivers. Taking to Twitter, the Chief Minister said he wants to ensure that the loan waiver is developed from a scientifically-procured process so that it may[Read More…]
UP: Farmers get loan waiver of Re 1 to Rs 18, against Rs 1 lakh promised by Yogi govt
Farmers in Uttar Pradesh have got farm loan waiver ranging from Re 1 to Rs 18. This comes as a rude shock to the farmers as they got a waiver of Re 1, to Rs 1.80, Rs 1.50 and Rs 18. The move comes as the Yogi Adityanath government announced[Read More…]
Maharashtra CM announces farm loan waiver of Rs 34,000 crore
Granting relief to farmers, the Maharashtra government on Saturday announced a farm loan waiver of Rs 34,000 crore. The decision was announced by Maharashtra chief minister, Devendra Fadnavis, after a meeting of the state cabinet. “We have decided to write off loans upto Rs1.5 lakh of individual farmers,” Fadnavis announced[Read More…]