"crop-loan-waiver"

Say they were left with no choice but to borrow money from private lenders at exorbitant rates of interest as government is delaying loan waiver

Unrest among farmers is continuing in the State, with Thursday witnessing a crude attempt by the Congress government to quell their voices before they took their protest to the State capital.

Farmers gathered in front of the State Bank of India on Thursday, raising slogans against the government and demanding unconditional crop loan waivers. Contrary to government claims, the farmers reported that many in the mandal have yet to see their loans waived.

The protest, which sought an unconditional loan waiver, gained momentum following a viral social media post by a young farmer urging collective action from farmers across villages, mandals, and districts. Farmers' unions rallied support, calling on various social groups to join their cause amid growing concerns over rising farmer suicides due to loan pressures.

Despite completing the necessary formalities, a significant number of these farmers remain uncertain about the waiver

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy was trying to restrict YouTube channels since they were streaming the real issues to the people, said BRS leader Harish Rao

A large number of farmers gathered at the mandal headquarters and blocked the road causing traffic disruption in the area for some time

The move, which will have the primary objective of exposing the double standards of the Congress party and the failures of the Congress government, will begin after a meeting with party leaders and cadre around September 10

MoS for Home Bandi Sanjay said the CM had created HYDRAA only to divert the attention from the crop loan waiver implementation failures

Farmers continued to hit the streets in several areas in the State raising basic issues, including water for their crops.

Sirpur (T) MLA Dr P Harish Babu said that the government cheated the farmers by allocating Rs 18,000 crore as against the outlay of the loans of Rs 65,000 crore in the state. He opined that it got rid of the loans by waiving loans belonging to a minor portion of farmers.

The former Minister emphasized that the Chief Minister’s statements had not matched the actual disbursement figures, leading to trust deficit and lack of transparency

The activists of Telangana Rashtra Rythu Sangham (AIKS) leaders Ch Narendra Kumar and M Viswanatham said Congress party during Assembly elections announced that crop loans up to Rs 2 lakh of all the farmers would be waived but after coming to power many restrictions were imposed in its implementation.

The incompetent Congress government was playing havoc with the farmers. Hardships the farmers were being subjected to would not augur well for the State, said KTR

The incident occurred when a large number of farmers, activists of Left parties and Telangana Rashtra Rythu Sangham arrived at the district collectorate to stage a protest seeking an unconditional crop loan waiver

While the Telangana Rashtra Rythu Sangham, affiliated to CPI, has called for protests in front of the Collector's office today, CPI (M) has decided to stage protests on Thursday.

The Agriculture department, which developed a mobile app to help complete the loan waiver process, will train AEOs on how to use and collect the data from Tuesday.

Out of 1,24,545 accounts, for which the waiver was pending due to Aadhar related issues, 41,322 accounts were updated so far. Aadhar related issues pertaining to rest of the accounts were in the process of rectification

Several opined that it was not fair for Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to cheat farmers

The Telangana Rythu Sangam district wing staged a protest at the Sangareddy collectorate demanding the government to waive off the crop loans of all farmers unconditionally.