RANCHI: Jharkhand authorities raised the farm mortgage waiver from Rs 50,000 to Rs 2 lakh a farmer on Thursday and benefitted round 1.77 lakh farmers the identical day.
“Farmers are the spine of the nation. They battle monetary constraints and climate vagaries to supply meals. Now we have been working to assist ‘annadatas’,” chief minister Hemant Soren mentioned. The govt. additionally signed an MoU with NDDB for state-owned Medha Dairy for one more 5 years.
The Soren-led UPA alliance had promised Rs 2L farm mortgage waiver forward of the 2019 polls, however the govt applied a waiver of Rs 50,000.
BJP has termed the improved mortgage waiver as a jumla. “Hemant govt did not ship. There isn’t a significant progress up to now 5 years. Now because it nears the top of its time period, the govt. seems to be making hasty choices, fearing backlash within the elections,” BJP spokesperson Ajay Sah mentioned.
The CM slammed the Centre, accusing it of “conspiring” in opposition to farmers. “They (BJP) haven’t got cash to double farmers’ earnings or to extend MSP, however have funds to waive enterprise loans,” he mentioned.
