Loan Waiver
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Bachchu Kadu's protest: Maharashtra govt constitutes nine-member committee for farmer loan waiver
Maharashtra | Oct 30, 2025, 11:51 PM ISTThousands of protesters led by former Maharashtra minister and Prahar Janshakti Party (PJP) leader Omprakash alias Bachchu Kadu had participated in the 'Maha Elgar Morcha from Tuesday on the national highway and other roads on Nagpur city outskirts, demanding a full farm loan waiver.
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Farmers call off protest in Nagpur, Bacchu Kadu to meet CM Fadnavis in Mumbai today
Maharashtra | Oct 30, 2025, 12:00 AM ISTBacchu Kadu asserted that the agitation will not stop until the government decides on their demands, and said instead of calling him to Mumbai, CM Fadnavis should meet him in Nagpur for discussions.
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Farmers, demanding MSP guarantee and loan waivers, to resume Delhi march on THIS day
India | Dec 10, 2024, 05:37 PM ISTDespite the government's efforts to prevent the march, including restricting media coverage, the farmers remain determined to continue their agitation.
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US: Biden reveals new strategy for students as court rejects his plan to wipe away $400 billion loan
World | Jul 01, 2023, 08:50 AM ISTNotably, the White House efforts to forgive loans were an attempt to keep a Biden promise stretching back to his 2020 campaign to wipe out student loan debt — an idea that was especially popular with young voters and progressives.
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Gujarat election 2022: Rahul Gandhi promises free electricity, loan waivers to farmers
India | Sep 05, 2022, 03:50 PM ISTGujarat Election 2022: Rahul Gandhi promised to waive loans to farmers at the 'Parivartan Sankalp Rally' that was held in Ahmedabad.
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Arvind Kejriwal counters PM Modi's jibe, says loan waivers 'for friends' promoting revadi culture
India | Jul 16, 2022, 08:45 PM ISTDelhi CM Arvind Kejriwal defended his government's schemes for free education, healthcare and electricity as not "freebies" but efforts to lay the foundation for making India the number one country in the world.
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Government positive about loan waiver above Rs 2 lakh, says Ajit Pawar
India | Jan 31, 2020, 06:32 PM ISTMaharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said on Friday that the state government was positive about waiving farm loans above the limit of Rs 2 lakh. The loan waiver scheme announced by the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government after coming to power last year has a cap of Rs 2 lakh.
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Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray announces farmer loan waiver of upto Rs 2 lakh
India | Dec 21, 2019, 06:59 PM ISTMaharashtra loan waiver: CM Uddhav Thackeray told the assembly on Saturday that his government will waive farmer loans of upto Rs 2 lakh with a cut-off date of September 30, 2019.
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Haryana polls: INLD promises loan waiver for farmers and small traders
Oct 12, 2019, 04:26 PM ISTThe INLD released its manifesto for the upcoming Haryana Assembly polls on Saturday, promising loan waiver for farmers and small traders, crop prices for farmers on the basis of the Swaminathan Commission's recommendations, free power to the farm sector and a slew of benefits for women, unemployed youngsters and traders.
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MP farmers got benefits up to Rs 15,000, not Rs 2 lakh: BJP
India | Jun 17, 2019, 06:21 PM ISTThe main opposition party said not a single farmer has got loan waiver benefit of Rs 2 lakh as announced under the scheme by the Congress government.
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Chhattisgarh government to waive Rs 207 crore irrigation tax of farmers
India | Jan 26, 2019, 04:43 PM ISTIn a move that will benefit 15 lakh farmers in Chhattisgarh, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel Saturday announced to waive their outstanding irrigation taxes worth Rs 207 crore.
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Madhya Pradesh farmer gets loan waiver of Rs 13 instead of Rs 24,000
India | Jan 24, 2019, 09:11 PM ISTA 55-year-old farmer in Madhya Pradesh was taken aback when he got a loan waiver of just Rs 13 instead of Rs 23,815 he was eligible for under a scheme announced by the newly elected Congress government.
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MP: Several farmers names missing from loan waiver list despite due application in bank
News | Jan 20, 2019, 09:44 AM ISTMP: Several farmers claim their names missing from loan waiver list despite due application in bank
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Rajasthan government panel recommends waiving all loans of farmers who committed suicide
India | Jan 06, 2019, 05:08 PM ISTAn inter-department panel formed to look into the modalities of farm loan waiver in Rajasthan has decided to recommend Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to waive all loans of farmers who have committed suicide between 2014 and 2018.
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'PM misleading nation for political gains: Kumaraswamy hits out at Modi over his 'cruel joke' remark
India | Dec 31, 2018, 12:03 PM ISTDismissing the remarks made by the prime minister, CM Kumaraswamy claimed that more than 60,000 farmers have been benefitted by the state government's loan waiver scheme.
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Government mulls zero interest on timely crop loan repayment as new year gift
India | Dec 28, 2018, 07:22 PM ISTTo address farmers' distress ahead of 2019 general elections, the government is considering waiving interest on crop loans for farmers who pay on time, costing an additional Rs 15,000 crore to the exchequer, according to sources.
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'We've woke up CMs of Assam, Gujarat, will rouse sleeping PM also': Rahul Gandhi's fresh salvo at Modi
India | Dec 19, 2018, 03:08 PM ISTThe Congress president has moved quickly to take credit for any potential farm loan waiver the government may plan ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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Won't let PM Modi sleep till he waives off loans of farmers: Rahul Gandhi
India | Dec 18, 2018, 02:15 PM IST"We will not let PM Modi sleep till he waives off loans of farmers, all opposition parties will unitedly demand this. Till now PM has not waived off a single rupee of farmers," Rahul Gandhi said told reporters outside Parliament.
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Farm loans waiver soon in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgrah: Rahul Gandhi
India | Dec 14, 2018, 09:25 PM ISTRahul’s comments came on a day when party veterans Ashok Gehlot and Kamal Nath were chosen as the new Chief Ministers of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, respectively.
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Agriculture loan waiver should not form part of poll promise: Rajan
India | Dec 14, 2018, 07:26 PM ISTFormer RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday said farm loan waiver should not form part of poll promises and he has written to Election Commission that such issues should be taken off the table.