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farmer loan waiver

News Reports

Despite Congress promises, Rajasthan farmers unlikely to get waiver certificate till after 2019 elections: Report

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

The report suggests that there is no clear timeline yet on how to proceed regarding the loan-waiver scheme and it will take a lot more time than expected to distribute loan waiver certificates to the farmers.

Economy and Finance

Facts, No Fiction: Recent farm loan waiver prove that Congress hasn’t learnt from its past mistakes that drove fiscal deficit up

Karan - 22 December, 2018

Populist policies like farm loan waiver of the Congress indicate two things; unwillingness to learn from past economic mistakes and the lack of a sound policy agenda to resolve some of the long-standing issues of Indian farmers.

News Reports

Days after Congress govt in MP ‘waives off’ loans, farmer commits suicide because he wasn’t eligible

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

The family of the deceased farmer allege that he ended his life as he was not entitled to the farm loan waive-off promised by the newly elected Chief Minister Kamal Nath.

News Reports

Economists give a thumbs down to ‘farm loan waivers’, call it a threat for bankers

OpIndia Staff - 21 December, 2018

'Farm loan waiver' strikes a dissent cord amongst bankers and economists

News Reports

Second farmer suicide within five days in Congress ruled Karnataka

OpIndia Staff - 21 December, 2018

The Karnataka government had recently admitted that their 44,000 crores farm loan waiver has helped only 800 farmers so far.

News Reports

Rahul Gandhi lies, tries to falsely take credit for the current Assam Government’s schemes benefiting farmers

Jhankar Mohta - 20 December, 2018

Overcoming the urge to open mobile factories in every nook and corner of the country, Rahul is currently obsessing over farm loan waiver

News Reports

Karnataka: Indira canteens go ‘hungry’ as their funds get diverted to farmer loan waivers

OpIndia Staff - 20 December, 2018

As per reports, owing to the farm loan waiver schemes, many popular schemes of the Siddaramaiah government have been affected

Economy and Finance

Farmer loan waivers tell us why Congress has no agenda

Chitra sharma - 20 December, 2018

Congress had announced a similar farmer loan waiver in 2008 which led it to a victory in the 2009 elections

Government and Policy

NITI Aayog’s vice chairperson slams Rahul Gandhi for his tweet on farm loan waiver

OpIndia Staff - 19 December, 2018

Niti Aayog vice chairperson Rajiv Kumar claimed that the current government has done more for farmers than any other previous government.

Politics

Charity needn’t necessarily begin at home – it can just as well end at home too

rohitagarwal - 19 December, 2018

“The answer is staring at your face”, the mendicant said, the wisdom gleaned from 60 years of misrule shining on his face. “Farm loan waivers.” He said.

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