"crop-loan-waiver"

Farmers staged dharna blocking roads and raised slogans against the State government for not extending the waiver to them. They said that they were forced to roam around banks to get the scheme. Due to the protest, traffic came to a standstill for a while.

The protests will be held in mandal and constituency headquarters across Telangana to pressurise the State government into fulfilling its loan waiver promises.

Extending support to the protesting farmers All India Pragathisheela Rythu Sangham (AIPKS) called for protests at all the district collectorates in the State on August 28 demanding unconditional crop loan waiver

Irrigation and Civil Supplies Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy said the loan waiver was pending in respect of over 17 lakh accounts. The waiver was could not be implemented due to technical reasons and that their issues would be addressed soon.

A decision was taken to stage ‘rasta roko’ protest on national highways on Saturday. This apart, they demanded that the State government should waive their crop loans without imposing any terms and conditions.

The Congress government is clearly on the backfoot and apparently fearing defeat, is trying to delay the local body elections

Rodda Suman took loan of Rs 1.92 lakh; many farmers allege that government rejecting their applications on one ground or the other

He demanded that the Congress government in the State fulfill its electoral promise, failing which the BRS, accompanied by farmers of the State, would launch a fight against it

The agitated farmers took out rallies, squatted on roads holding up traffic, burnt effigies of the Chief Minister, took out funeral procession to register their protests.

The farmers took out a protest rally to the collectorate and staged rasta-roko bringing vehicular flow to a standstill for a while.

BRS leader T Harish Rao said the farm loan waiver programme was reduced to a farce. Revanth had proved once again to be falling short in the stature and sincerity to his commitment that was expected from a Chief Minister.

Highlights severe challenges faced by farmers, warns that decrease in cultivated area dangerous sign for survival of ryots

The youth Narapogu Nagakrishna’s family owns 1.20 acres of land at the village and a crop loan of Rs 88,000 was taken by the family.

On his way to Chinnamulkanur of Chigurumamidi mandal, the Minister stopped his vehicle on seeing a few agricultural labourers engaged in paddy plantation.

The government also assured the implementation of a crop loan waiver for farmers with loans up to Rs 2 lakh without any conditions.

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said six lakh farmers would benefit from the second phase of the farm loan waiver scheme, for which Rs.6,198 crore was mobilized

Says bankers asking farmers to pay interest before waiving the loan

Says panchayats finding it hard to deliver services due to lack of funds

The RBI informed that due to technical problems, around Rs 84.94 crore was not credited into 17,877 bank accounts which would be now returned to the State government after rectifying the issue, said Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao.

Farmers failing to get considered in the first phase remittances, took up their issues with the branch heads of their respective banks.