Loans Of Farmers

Fending off the BJP's attacks over one of his ministers allegedly claiming that farmers wish for droughts so that they can get loan waivers, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that the remark was made in jest.

A Karnataka minister is at the centre of a controversy for an insensitive remark that farmers "wish for drought year after year so that their loans get waived".

A 55-year-old farmer allegedly died by suicide in a village in Chhattisgarh's tribal-dominated Narayanpur district, officials said on Saturday.

A 28-year-old farmer was found hanging in his house at Tekadi village in Nagpur district of Maharashtra in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

The Congress on Sunday released its manifesto for the Chhattisgarh assembly polls, promising caste census, loan waiver to farmers, Rs 3,200 for per quintal for paddy procurement and subsidised cooking gas cylinders to women under a new scheme.

In a major announcement ahead of the next month's assembly polls, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel on Monday said if his party Congress retains power in the state, loans of farmers will be written off.

Chouhan said that when Priyanka announced that education in MP would be free from Classes 1-12 if her party was voted to power, Kamal Nath went up to her and asked her to make some corrections.

More than 150 farmers have been allegedly cheated of Rs 113 crore in a loan fraud in three tehsils of Nagpur district in Maharashtra, a police official said on Thursday.

On the eve of Independence Day, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has announced full waiver of farmer loans upto Rs one lakh with immediate effect, to fulfill the promise he made on the eve of state elections in 2018.

Unable to repay loan, a farmer and his wife allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district, police said on Wednesday.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will today launch a campaign for farmers' interest waiver ahead of state elections later this year.

A debt-ridden farmer and a farm labourer committed suicide over a period of two days in Sillod of Maharashtra's Aurangabad district, which incidentally is the constituency of state Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar, police said on Monday.

Seeking to woo farmers in an election year, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday announced an increase in the limit of interest-free short-term loan given to farmers from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh from the coming financial year.

In a credit outreach programme, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said the government would give out cheques for loans under Kisan Credit Card Scheme to as many as 9,000 farmers with a total outlay of Rs 1,500 crore in just one day.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma today asserted that the money given to farmers under state government schemes is not a loan and, he alleged, the BJP was trying to mislead the beneficiaries by claiming it to be so.

Fending off the BJP's attacks over one of his ministers allegedly claiming that farmers wish for droughts so that they can get loan waivers, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that the remark was made in jest.

A Karnataka minister is at the centre of a controversy for an insensitive remark that farmers "wish for drought year after year so that their loans get waived".

A 55-year-old farmer allegedly died by suicide in a village in Chhattisgarh's tribal-dominated Narayanpur district, officials said on Saturday.

A 28-year-old farmer was found hanging in his house at Tekadi village in Nagpur district of Maharashtra in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

The Congress on Sunday released its manifesto for the Chhattisgarh assembly polls, promising caste census, loan waiver to farmers, Rs 3,200 for per quintal for paddy procurement and subsidised cooking gas cylinders to women under a new scheme.

In a major announcement ahead of the next month's assembly polls, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel on Monday said if his party Congress retains power in the state, loans of farmers will be written off.

Chouhan said that when Priyanka announced that education in MP would be free from Classes 1-12 if her party was voted to power, Kamal Nath went up to her and asked her to make some corrections.

More than 150 farmers have been allegedly cheated of Rs 113 crore in a loan fraud in three tehsils of Nagpur district in Maharashtra, a police official said on Thursday.

On the eve of Independence Day, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has announced full waiver of farmer loans upto Rs one lakh with immediate effect, to fulfill the promise he made on the eve of state elections in 2018.

Unable to repay loan, a farmer and his wife allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district, police said on Wednesday.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will today launch a campaign for farmers' interest waiver ahead of state elections later this year.

A debt-ridden farmer and a farm labourer committed suicide over a period of two days in Sillod of Maharashtra's Aurangabad district, which incidentally is the constituency of state Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar, police said on Monday.

Seeking to woo farmers in an election year, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday announced an increase in the limit of interest-free short-term loan given to farmers from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh from the coming financial year.

In a credit outreach programme, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said the government would give out cheques for loans under Kisan Credit Card Scheme to as many as 9,000 farmers with a total outlay of Rs 1,500 crore in just one day.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma today asserted that the money given to farmers under state government schemes is not a loan and, he alleged, the BJP was trying to mislead the beneficiaries by claiming it to be so.