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Punjab Farmers' Group Hold Protests At 18 Toll Plazas Across State
A Punjab farmers' group on Thursday held protests at several toll plazas against the state government to press for their demands, including farm debt waiver, remunerative prices for their crops and compensation for damage to crops.
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Punjab Chief Minister Writes To PM, Demands Complete Waiver Of Farmers' Debt
A day after Parliament passed a Bill to repeal the farm laws, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding a complete waiver of the debt of farmers and farm labourers.
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"Jet Worth Rs 8,000 Crore But...": Priyanka Gandhi To PM On Farm Loans
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday attacked PM Narendra Modi, saying that he flies in an Rs 8,000 crore aircraft to address a rally but can't waive the debt of farmers.
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Punjab Launches Debt Waiver Scheme For Farm Labour, Landless Farmers
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday rolled out a Rs 520 crore debt relief scheme for 2.85 lakh farm labourers and landless farmers on the occasion of the 77th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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Amarinder Singh Slams AAP For Criticising Debt Waiver To Farm Labourers
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over its criticism of his government's decision on debt waiver for farm labourers and landless farmers, saying it exposed the opposition party's "anti-farmer stance".
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Farm Loan Waiver Decision At A Time When Nation Is "Burning": Shiv Sena
Hailing the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government for announcing loan waiver of up to Rs two lakh for farmers, the Shiv Sena today hit out at the BJP for seeking to write off debts fully and asked why it did not address the issue when it was in power.
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Opinion: High Debt Isn't Driving Farmers to Suicides
It's election season in India and the money is flowing. Governments in many states have begun waiving tens of millions of dollars' worth of loans to poor farmers in an effort to buy their loyalty. The argument - widely accepted by politicians and journalists, the demographic groups with the least fiscal instinct - is that India's farmers are buckli...
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Mamta Banerjee Favours Loan Waivers, Suggests Beneficiary Schemes
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today urged a group of chief ministers, set up by the Centre, to consider the need to waive institutional loans of farmers and the formation of adequate budgetary provision for it by the union government.
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Agriculture Minister Slammed For Comment On Farmers' Protest
Farmers across several states have launched a 10-day agitation to demand better prices and loan waivers to pull them out of debt traps. They have refused to send their produce to urban centres, at places throwing vegetables and milk on roads as a mark of protest. Union farm minister Radha Mohan Singh spoke his mind on the protests on Saturday. Mr S...
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Why Banks In Maharashtra Are Wary Of Using Own Capital For Loan Waiver
Learning a lesson from the farm loan waiver scheme in 2008, wherein the banks had to wait for three years before they were given back their capital used for the debt write-off, the public sector and private lenders are treading cautiously this time.
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Punjab Budget Exposes Fine Print Of Ambitious Farm Loan Waiver
After Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, the Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government too has announced a loan waiver for its farmers. It was meant to be the most generous waiver announced so far in a state where total agrarian debt is estimated to be around 80,000 crores. But the Congress government's maiden budget hasn't kept pace with the Chief Ministe...
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Decision On Loan Waiver Soon: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh today said his government would soon announce its decision on farm debt waiver based on the recommendations of the T Haq Expert Committee, which is scheduled to submit its report shortly.
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5 Farmer Suicides In 2 Weeks Despite Uttar Pradesh's Loan Waiver Scheme
There have been five instances of farmers suicides across Uttar Pradesh last two weeks. In all five instances, the families of those who killed themselves said the farmers were under heavy debt - from government institutions and private money lenders. Two of the suicides have happened in Kanpur district, and one each in Mahoba, Banda and Kaushambhi...
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Farm Loan Waiver 'Temporarily Necessary', Says MS Swaminathan, Father Of Green Revolution
Farm loan waiver is necessary in the short term as farmers are unable repay debts due to fall in agri-prices despite a bumper crop, renowned agriculture scientist MS Swaminathan said on Tuesday.
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Government Wants 'Freedom From Debt' For Farmers: Chandrakant Patil
Maharashtra government is preparing a scheme aiming to free the farmers of indebtedness permanently instead of granting one-time loan waivers, revenue minister Chandrakant Patil said in Mumbai today. This 'freedom from debt' scheme will cost Rs 10,000 crore instead of Rs 30,000 crore needed for loan-waiver (which opposition Congress and NCP are dem...
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Punjab Farmers' Group Hold Protests At 18 Toll Plazas Across State
A Punjab farmers' group on Thursday held protests at several toll plazas against the state government to press for their demands, including farm debt waiver, remunerative prices for their crops and compensation for damage to crops.
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Punjab Chief Minister Writes To PM, Demands Complete Waiver Of Farmers' Debt
A day after Parliament passed a Bill to repeal the farm laws, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding a complete waiver of the debt of farmers and farm labourers.
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"Jet Worth Rs 8,000 Crore But...": Priyanka Gandhi To PM On Farm Loans
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday attacked PM Narendra Modi, saying that he flies in an Rs 8,000 crore aircraft to address a rally but can't waive the debt of farmers.
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Punjab Launches Debt Waiver Scheme For Farm Labour, Landless Farmers
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday rolled out a Rs 520 crore debt relief scheme for 2.85 lakh farm labourers and landless farmers on the occasion of the 77th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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Amarinder Singh Slams AAP For Criticising Debt Waiver To Farm Labourers
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over its criticism of his government's decision on debt waiver for farm labourers and landless farmers, saying it exposed the opposition party's "anti-farmer stance".
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Farm Loan Waiver Decision At A Time When Nation Is "Burning": Shiv Sena
Hailing the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government for announcing loan waiver of up to Rs two lakh for farmers, the Shiv Sena today hit out at the BJP for seeking to write off debts fully and asked why it did not address the issue when it was in power.
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Opinion: High Debt Isn't Driving Farmers to Suicides
It's election season in India and the money is flowing. Governments in many states have begun waiving tens of millions of dollars' worth of loans to poor farmers in an effort to buy their loyalty. The argument - widely accepted by politicians and journalists, the demographic groups with the least fiscal instinct - is that India's farmers are buckli...
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Mamta Banerjee Favours Loan Waivers, Suggests Beneficiary Schemes
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today urged a group of chief ministers, set up by the Centre, to consider the need to waive institutional loans of farmers and the formation of adequate budgetary provision for it by the union government.
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Agriculture Minister Slammed For Comment On Farmers' Protest
Farmers across several states have launched a 10-day agitation to demand better prices and loan waivers to pull them out of debt traps. They have refused to send their produce to urban centres, at places throwing vegetables and milk on roads as a mark of protest. Union farm minister Radha Mohan Singh spoke his mind on the protests on Saturday. Mr S...
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Why Banks In Maharashtra Are Wary Of Using Own Capital For Loan Waiver
Learning a lesson from the farm loan waiver scheme in 2008, wherein the banks had to wait for three years before they were given back their capital used for the debt write-off, the public sector and private lenders are treading cautiously this time.
-
Punjab Budget Exposes Fine Print Of Ambitious Farm Loan Waiver
After Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, the Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government too has announced a loan waiver for its farmers. It was meant to be the most generous waiver announced so far in a state where total agrarian debt is estimated to be around 80,000 crores. But the Congress government's maiden budget hasn't kept pace with the Chief Ministe...
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Decision On Loan Waiver Soon: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh today said his government would soon announce its decision on farm debt waiver based on the recommendations of the T Haq Expert Committee, which is scheduled to submit its report shortly.
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5 Farmer Suicides In 2 Weeks Despite Uttar Pradesh's Loan Waiver Scheme
There have been five instances of farmers suicides across Uttar Pradesh last two weeks. In all five instances, the families of those who killed themselves said the farmers were under heavy debt - from government institutions and private money lenders. Two of the suicides have happened in Kanpur district, and one each in Mahoba, Banda and Kaushambhi...
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Farm Loan Waiver 'Temporarily Necessary', Says MS Swaminathan, Father Of Green Revolution
Farm loan waiver is necessary in the short term as farmers are unable repay debts due to fall in agri-prices despite a bumper crop, renowned agriculture scientist MS Swaminathan said on Tuesday.
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Government Wants 'Freedom From Debt' For Farmers: Chandrakant Patil
Maharashtra government is preparing a scheme aiming to free the farmers of indebtedness permanently instead of granting one-time loan waivers, revenue minister Chandrakant Patil said in Mumbai today. This 'freedom from debt' scheme will cost Rs 10,000 crore instead of Rs 30,000 crore needed for loan-waiver (which opposition Congress and NCP are dem...
