"crop-loan-waiver"

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.

Mobilizing agriculture investment support from private sources is an uphill task. Loan waiver should have been scheduled after Rythu Bharosa.

At a meeting with bankers here on Thursday, he said Rs.31,000 crore would be released before the end of August towards the crop loan waiver

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao charged that the Congress government was yet again deceiving the farmers.

While the loans upto Rs.1 lakh will be waived from Thursday in the first spell, loans upto Rs 1.5 lakh will be cleared by the end of July in the second spell and the remaining loans, those upto Rs 2 lakh, will be waived before August 15.