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Cruel joke on farmers: big promises and petty loan waivers
by Guest Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:02 pm
Only six months into power and the Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh is already in hot water with a series of controversies emerging one after another.
Facing flak for the deaths of children in a hospital in Gorakhpur last month, as also for the insensitive “children die every August” remark by state health minister Siddharth Nath Singh, the state government kicked up another storm when the first phase of the much-hyped crop loan waiver scheme turned into a major farce for farmers.
The state government had earlier announced that under the scheme, crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh will be waived off for small and marginal farmers. However, as cabinet ministers ceremoniously distribute loan waiver certificates to farmers across districts, it turns out that many of the beneficiary farmers have received waivers of amounts as petty as Re 1 or Rs 1.50.
A farmer in Etawah’s Aheripur village, who took a loan of Rs 28,000, received a waiver of Rs 1.80. While another farmer in Mukutpur who borrowed more than Rs 2 lakh got a waiver of Rs 1.50. In another case reported from Bijnor, Baliya Devi got a loan waiver of a mere 9 paise.
In a ceremony organised at Hamirpur, the labour and employment minister handed over a loan waiver certificate for the amount of Rs 215.03 to farmer Munni Lal who had borrowed Rs 50,000. When he complained about it, the minister evaded this citing a typing error. However, it became soon became clear that it was no typo. In Mirzapur, farmers staged a protest before state finance minister Rajesh Agrawal against this fraud move of the government.
https://thewire.in/178096/yogi-adityanath-uttar-pradesh-farm-loan-waiver/
Facing flak for the deaths of children in a hospital in Gorakhpur last month, as also for the insensitive “children die every August” remark by state health minister Siddharth Nath Singh, the state government kicked up another storm when the first phase of the much-hyped crop loan waiver scheme turned into a major farce for farmers.
The state government had earlier announced that under the scheme, crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh will be waived off for small and marginal farmers. However, as cabinet ministers ceremoniously distribute loan waiver certificates to farmers across districts, it turns out that many of the beneficiary farmers have received waivers of amounts as petty as Re 1 or Rs 1.50.
A farmer in Etawah’s Aheripur village, who took a loan of Rs 28,000, received a waiver of Rs 1.80. While another farmer in Mukutpur who borrowed more than Rs 2 lakh got a waiver of Rs 1.50. In another case reported from Bijnor, Baliya Devi got a loan waiver of a mere 9 paise.
In a ceremony organised at Hamirpur, the labour and employment minister handed over a loan waiver certificate for the amount of Rs 215.03 to farmer Munni Lal who had borrowed Rs 50,000. When he complained about it, the minister evaded this citing a typing error. However, it became soon became clear that it was no typo. In Mirzapur, farmers staged a protest before state finance minister Rajesh Agrawal against this fraud move of the government.
https://thewire.in/178096/yogi-adityanath-uttar-pradesh-farm-loan-waiver/
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