Tag: Farmers’ loan

Thackeray announces loan waiver of upto Rs 2 lakh for farmers, to cost 40k crore to state exchequer

With a view to making the administration more decentralized, Thackeray also announced a scheme whereby the Chief Minister's Office would go close to the citizens.

December 21, 2019

Punjab begins farm debt waiver, farmers; AAP protest

Hundreds of farmers and AAP activists protested on Sunday at the grain market in Mansa town as the Punjab government began a farm debt waiver scheme for a section of marginal, debt-ridden farmers in the state. The farmers, who held the protest under the banner of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), termed the scheme as...

January 7, 2018

Rajasthan govt will have to waive loans of farmers: Pilot

Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot demanded that the Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government in the state immediately waive the loans of farmers on the lines of relief provided to them in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Farmers in Rajasthan have been protesting, seeking loan waivers and on other issues troubling them. They had blocked roads in Sikar...

October 9, 2017

BJP MP flays Maha govt over loan waiver scheme for farmers

The BJP’s Lok Sabha member, Nana Patole, has criticised the party-led government in Maharashtra over the tardy implementation of the loan waiver scheme for farmers. Saying that farmers’ suicides are still on the rise despite the announcement of the debt write-off, Patole, Lok Sabha member from Bhandara Gondia seat, said the government is “insensitive” towards...

August 18, 2017

Stop making mockery of farmers’ plight, Amarinder tells Modi

Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh has lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making a mockery of the plight of India’s debt-ridden farmers. Amarinder dismissed the farmer loan waiver promise to Uttar Pradesh farmers as a poll gimmick with an eye on the votes of the large farming community in the state. Questioning...

March 7, 2017