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Vegetable prices skyrocketed during Modi Govt's tenure: Telanagana CM Revanth ReddyTelangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy inaugurated a new fruit market and sub-registrar office complex. He criticized the central governmen...
Day of Reckoning: West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala & Puducherry assembly poll results set to redefine India's political journeyWest Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala & Puducherry assembly poll results: Counting day arrives for five states after a heated election. Vo...
After Telangana's Rs 31,000 cr farm loan waiver, Punjab farmers reiterate similar demandThe Telangana government has announced a farm loan waiver of up to Rs 2 lakh, benefiting nearly 40 lakh farmers at a cost of around Rs 31,0...
Debt waivers by states slow down farm loan deliveryThe states, which announced debt waivers as a mechanism to address farmer distress, saw impacts on farm loan delivery in various degrees, a...
Revised farm loan waiver norms in Maharashtra to cost Rs 500 crore moreAround 58 lakh farmers are currently covered under the scheme, the state government said during the Maharashtra Assembly's monsoon session ...
No impact on NPAs due to farm loan waivers by states: Urjit PatelFarm debt waivers announced by five large states is expected to widen fiscal deficit of states by Rs 1,07,700 crore or 0.65 per cent of GDP...
Farm loan waivers to raise state deficits by Rs 1.08 trillion: ReportThe combined fiscal deficit of the states--Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Karnataka--for FY18 has been budgeted at 2.7% ...
Over 11,000 Uttar Pradesh farmers get waiver for loans of Re 1 to Rs 500The Uttar Pradesh government today said outstanding loans of 11.93 lakh small and marginal farmers were waived in the first phase of implem...
Finance Ministry yet to make recovery from ineligible persons under farm debt waiverA Parliamentary Panel today said it is "perturbed" with the Finance Ministry over its delay in recovering the money given to ineligible per...
After Raghuram Rajan, PSU banks' heads now question farm debt waiversLast month, the RBI Governor had said that debt waiver schemes have constrained flow of credit to farmers.
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan questions farm debt waiver schemesTalking about subsidies for farm sector, Rajan said that it will be useful to see whether these subsidies have actually helped agriculture ...
UCBs asked to provide audit certificates of farm debt waiverThe Reserve Bank today asked urban co-operative banks to submit their auditors' certificates related to 2008 farm loan debt waiver scheme b...
- Farm debt waiver scheme: CAG seeks details from banks
The government auditor CAG has sought details from all banks regarding the implementation of the Rs 71,000-crore farm debt waiver scheme.
- No fresh proposal on farm debt waiver: FM
Exuding confidence that the economy would grow by over six per cent despite erratic monsoon, the government today said it is not considerin...
- Govt to pay interest on unpaid amount of Debt Waiver Scheme
The Reserve Bank on Tuesday said the government will pay interest to banks at 364 days treasury bill rate on the unpaid amount towards Farm...
- Farm loan waiver meet on Friday
With only four days left for the full implementation of the farm debt waiver, the state government plans to take stock of its performance a...
- Relief may still elude many in land of farm suicides
The expanded farm debt waiver plan cleared by the Union Cabinet on Friday is unlikely to bring cheer to the farmers in Vidarbha, the ground...
- Loan waiver unlikely for big farmers
Farmers holding more than five acres and looking up to the central government to widen the net of debt waiver scheme could be in for disapp...
- Govt to work on farm debt waiver
The government today said it will implement the Rs 60,000-crore farm debt waiver scheme, announced in the Budget 2008-09, in a manner that ...
- NDC to consider farm debt waiver
The National Development Council (NDC) will take a view on the Planning Commission's suggestion to evolve a mechanism for expediting one-ti...