Loan waiver

The Rajasthan State Cooperative Bank Ltd and Rajasthan State Land Development Bank Ltd are the main banks that give short-term and long-term loans respectively to farmers. read more

These states have so far managed to make budgetary provisions for less than two-thirds of the total loans supposed to be waived, a review by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shows. read more

Azad said if voted back to power, the Congress government will make a policy to implement the farm loan promises, and implementing farm loan promise will be the top priority of the Congress. read more

In its 2014 assembly election manifesto, the BJP had promised to reach double digit agricultural growth. read more

The cabinet gave its nod to waive off \u20B966.56 crore worth of loans taken by 46,735 farmers from 1,393 private money lenders. read more

Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis chaired the first meeting of the cabinet sub-committee appointed to review the rehabilitation of flood-affected families from Sangli, Kolhapur, Satara, districts in the Konkan, Nashik and other parts of the state. read more

Kumaraswamy was asked by the Governor Vajubhai Vala to continue as a caretaker chief minister till a new government was sworn-in, he was also barred from taking any major policy decisions, like the loan waiver for the landless-labourers. read more

He also demanded booking the entire Congress committee which drafted the party manifesto announcing a complete farm waiver on charges of duping innocent farmers of the state. read more

CM requests union finance minister for \u20B915.6cr for loan waiver; says PMJAY criteria should not be based on 2011 census read more

Among all the other challenges, he will also have to deal with the wily former chief minister and TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu, who is already attempting to set the agenda for his government, while sitting in the opposition benches. read more

The allies had contested the 2014 polls separately and won 185 seats (BJP had won 122, Sena had won 63). read more

The party will discuss, among other things, why its mass movements are not resulting into votes. The CPI(M) in the recent years had organised the biggest farmers’ movement, the Long March, in Maharashtra. read more

After coming to power in the state, the Congress government organised loan waiver camps in the districts. However, the government made the verification of Aadhaar details mandatory for the waiver. read more

Talking to media persons, Shivraj Singh Chouhan had alleged that farmers were being betrayed in the name of a loan waiver. read more

Congress workers, led by senior party functionary Suresh Pachauri, took a mini-van carrying loan waiver certificates to Chouhan’s residence. read more