Yogi Adityanath Farm Loan Waiver

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday targeted Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in his home turf of Gorakhpur and made a flurry of poll promises, including farm loan waiver and purchasing wheat and paddy at Rs 2500 per quintal.

"Keep your Ali, Bajrang Bali is enough for us." This was how Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath responded to a recent video that showed senior Congress leader Kamal Nath asking Muslim leaders to ensure as much as 90 per cent votes from the minority community for his party. While the BJP grabbed the opportunity to declare that Mr Nath w...

When this farmer from Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district received a certificate waiving one paisa of his outstanding farm loan of Rs 1.5 lakh under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's much-hyped farmer loan waiver scheme, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

For a farm loan waiver of exactly Rs. 12, Shambhu Nath, a marginal farmer and daily wager says he lost Rs. 218 - a princely sum for him and his extremely poor family of 13 in Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Rajesh Agarwal today presented the first budget of the Yogi Adityanath government for 2017-18 in the state Assembly, which provides for Rs 36,000 crore as farm loan waiver.

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...

Hit by years of drought, 70-year-old Kalyan Singh saw the first decent crop in years in the last Kharif season. He made some money but not enough to repay his 49,000 farm loan taken three years ago. And then, the Yogi Adityanath government's announcement to waive the crop loans came. "I heard on TV that 1 lakh rupee loans will be waived," the small...

Rs 36,359 crores. That's the farm loan waiver announced by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in April. The new government swiftly took the decision in the first cabinet meeting, making it known that they were serious about a promise made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But it is this very act of generosity and alacrity that came to bite...

The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday transferred 20 senior IAS officers, including Navneet Sehgal and Rama Raman, who were considered influential in the erstwhile government.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has in his second cabinet meeting held this morning ordered 18-hour power supply in villages and 24 hours in district headquarters of the state. A farm loan waiver had headlined the new Chief Minister's first cabinet meeting last week and has built pressure on his counterparts in other states to make sim...

The Shiv Sena today showered praise on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for taking quick decisions to ensure people's welfare in his state and asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to take lessons from his Uttar Pradesh counterpart.

The RBI governor said such write-offs of loans also meant "transfers from taxpayers to borrowers. If on account of this, overall government borrowings go up, yields on government bonds also are impacted."

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's quick announcement of a farm loan waiver has put pressure on another young BJP Chief Minister. Maharashtra's Devendra Fadnavis said today that his government is studying the Uttar Pradesh model.

The Yogi Adityanath government's waiver of farmer loans in Uttar Pradesh is partial, but "a step in the right direction," said Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in a series of tweets today. He has also sought a national response from the central government, asking rival BJP, which rules both at the centre and in UP, to "not discriminate amongst ...

The first cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath decided to float Kisan Rahat Bonds for raising Rs 36,359 crore required for waiving loans of small and marginal farmers .

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday targeted Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in his home turf of Gorakhpur and made a flurry of poll promises, including farm loan waiver and purchasing wheat and paddy at Rs 2500 per quintal.

"Keep your Ali, Bajrang Bali is enough for us." This was how Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath responded to a recent video that showed senior Congress leader Kamal Nath asking Muslim leaders to ensure as much as 90 per cent votes from the minority community for his party. While the BJP grabbed the opportunity to declare that Mr Nath w...

When this farmer from Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district received a certificate waiving one paisa of his outstanding farm loan of Rs 1.5 lakh under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's much-hyped farmer loan waiver scheme, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

For a farm loan waiver of exactly Rs. 12, Shambhu Nath, a marginal farmer and daily wager says he lost Rs. 218 - a princely sum for him and his extremely poor family of 13 in Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Rajesh Agarwal today presented the first budget of the Yogi Adityanath government for 2017-18 in the state Assembly, which provides for Rs 36,000 crore as farm loan waiver.

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...

Hit by years of drought, 70-year-old Kalyan Singh saw the first decent crop in years in the last Kharif season. He made some money but not enough to repay his 49,000 farm loan taken three years ago. And then, the Yogi Adityanath government's announcement to waive the crop loans came. "I heard on TV that 1 lakh rupee loans will be waived," the small...

Rs 36,359 crores. That's the farm loan waiver announced by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in April. The new government swiftly took the decision in the first cabinet meeting, making it known that they were serious about a promise made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But it is this very act of generosity and alacrity that came to bite...

The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday transferred 20 senior IAS officers, including Navneet Sehgal and Rama Raman, who were considered influential in the erstwhile government.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has in his second cabinet meeting held this morning ordered 18-hour power supply in villages and 24 hours in district headquarters of the state. A farm loan waiver had headlined the new Chief Minister's first cabinet meeting last week and has built pressure on his counterparts in other states to make sim...

The Shiv Sena today showered praise on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for taking quick decisions to ensure people's welfare in his state and asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to take lessons from his Uttar Pradesh counterpart.

The RBI governor said such write-offs of loans also meant "transfers from taxpayers to borrowers. If on account of this, overall government borrowings go up, yields on government bonds also are impacted."

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's quick announcement of a farm loan waiver has put pressure on another young BJP Chief Minister. Maharashtra's Devendra Fadnavis said today that his government is studying the Uttar Pradesh model.

The Yogi Adityanath government's waiver of farmer loans in Uttar Pradesh is partial, but "a step in the right direction," said Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in a series of tweets today. He has also sought a national response from the central government, asking rival BJP, which rules both at the centre and in UP, to "not discriminate amongst ...

The first cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath decided to float Kisan Rahat Bonds for raising Rs 36,359 crore required for waiving loans of small and marginal farmers .