Waiver Is All Bluff Work

Hyderabad: The Government is continuing its deceptive ways with respect to the waiver of agricultural loans. After cutting down the funds with strict regulations, several conditions and a lot more filtrations, the Government is still trying to bluff the farmers who have crossed all these hurdles. Funds are still not being allotted after all the publicity stunts in place. Even the funds released in parts for the second installment are not being transferred to the banks.

Payments have not been done for the qualifying farmers even for the 3rd and the 4th phases in the first instalment of waiver. The promise made to horticultural farmers for assistance of Rs.10,000 per acre also has not taken shape yet. Farmers are left with no choice but to go around Government offices and banks for the promised money.

Horticulture sector also takes the blow

The CM has formally made his first signature during the inauguration of temporary secretariat in Velagapudi on the file sanctioning Rs.3,200 crore for the first and the second instalments of loan waiver. He also signed on the file sanctioning Rs.375 crore for horticultural farmers. The funds were supposed to be released in May but they haven’t seen light even in the third week of July. As Kharif has begun, the farmers are very anxious about receiving the loans, but the Government is staying indifferent as usual.

Publicity about sanction of funds

As part of second instalment, an amount of Rs.3,002.55 crore is to be paid for 36,39,553 farmers’ accounts. But the finance department, in May, ordered for release of Rs.1000 crore. The funds were released a while later to the farmers’ organisations. They still have not reached farmers’ accounts. After finance department released BRO for funds for the first and the second instalments of waiver, assistance for horticultural farmers, waiver software support, funds are being released whenever possible and in however small amounts possible. The Government is publicizing that the funds are being given just with the acceptance of agriculture department.