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TopicFarm loan waivers

Topic: Farm loan waivers

‘Shall we make him the CM?’ Ajit Pawar does it again, snaps at flood-hit farmer seeking loan waiver

Purva Chitnis -
The deputy CM was meeting farmers in flood-hit Marathwada. Rebuking a farmer who had lost his crop, Pawar said, 'Are we here to play marbles? I have been working since 6 am'.

3 govts, 3 pivots: How farm loan waivers announced in Maharashtra fared over the years

Purva Chitnis -
The change in the anatomy of the project with each successive govt over the last 7 years has left officials struggling to wrap it up.

Farm loan waivers are announced in election season. Karnataka worst offender

Vidya Mahambare -
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra and Telangana announced 9 of the 19 waivers in two decades, unlike Bihar and West Bengal, the two less prosperous states.

Indian farmers need a new distress index. Just suicide data won’t do

Shweta Saini -
Despite the centrality of agriculture in India, there is no standard measure of farmers’ distress. The most commonly cited measure is the number of suicides.

Finally, an alternative to farm loan waivers that assures direct income for all farmers

Arvind Subramanian -
Loan waivers will only make rich farmers richer. Quasi-universal basic rural income guarantees basic income for the poorest of farmers.

Heavy debts alone are not driving farmers to suicide

Shamika Ravi -
Instead of loan waivers, policy makers need to peel through the layers to figure out what farmers really need.

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Soham Sen -
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Karnataka announced farm loan waiver in May but a software delayed launch till December

Rohini Swamy -
Kumaraswamy promised loan waiver for about 43 lakh farmers, days after taking charge. Until now, loans for 27,000 have been cleared.

With just months to go for Lok Sabha elections, populism is back centre stage

Vrishti Beniwal -
Modi has so far held back on announcing a national farm loan waiver. But temptation to appease voters was evident when he hinted at cutting GST rates.

Karnataka announces Rs 34,000-crore farm loan waiver, national tally crosses Rs 1.9 trillion

Nikhil Rampal -
The H.D. Kumaraswamy government joins a list of seven states that have announced farm loan waivers since 2014.
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