Jharkhand’s Hemant Soren government has allocated about 4 lakh farmers (Farmers) has waived off a loan of Rs 1529 crore. According to the information given by the state government, the objective of the Jharkhand Agriculture Loan Waiver Scheme is to provide relief from the burden of debt to the farmers holding short term agricultural loans of the state. State government spokesperson claimed that the government is giving benefits of the scheme to 906 farmers every day and loan waiver of Rs 3.34 crore per day.Farm Loan Waiver) Happening. He said that till March 31, 2022, loans worth Rs 1529.01 crore of 3 lakh 83 thousand 102 farmers have been waived. The spokesman said that in the financial year 2020-21, 1 lakh 22 thousand 238 farmers were given the benefit of the scheme. His total loan of Rs 494.96 crore was waived by the government. He said that similarly in the last financial year 2021-22, 2 lakh 60 thousand 864 farmers were benefited from the scheme and a total of Rs 1034.05 crore was paid for loan waiver.
He told that the government is also resolving the problems related to the farm loan waiver scheme of the farmers through the Kisan Call Center. State Agriculture Director Nisha Oraon told that every effort is being made to give the benefits of the scheme to the farmers. In Jharkhand, the government operates the Kisan Call Center. Every type of problem related to agriculture is solved over the phone itself. Farmers are benefiting a lot from this, because they do not have to make rounds of office-office for their problems.
‘Farmers are not getting the benefit of loan waiver scheme’
Claims about farmer loan waiver from Jharkhand government have come at a time when a NABARD report has claimed that farmers are not getting the benefits they should get from loan waiver. The NABARD report states that 40 percent of the farmers have not benefited from this scheme.
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It was told in the NABARD report that on an average 50 percent of the agricultural credit disbursed in a year is given by six states. These include states like Rajasthan, Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The report said that the government should promote a healthy credit culture. Investment in agriculture will also improve the situation. Also, instead of waiving the loans of farmers, attention should be paid to solving the problems of the agriculture sector.
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