I vow on my son, I’ll waive off farm loans: CM Kumaraswamy
Bagalkot, Dec 28: “The Coalition government was committed to waive off the farmers loans. Believe me. I have only one son and I vow on my son that I would waive off the farm loans”, said Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy.
Speaking at a programme organized to distribute No Objection Certificates to 2,796 farmers in Bagalkot on Friday, the CM said that the Opposition leaders have been alleging that the coalition government is cheating the farmers in loan waiver issue.
But we have taken a strong decision to waive off the loans. Our government will not cheat the farmers. Let us give strength. The Coalition government would survive. Farmers are no need to be panic. I will not go without waiving off farm loans”, the CM promised.
The government has not put any conditions for loan waiver. Only Aadhar card and pahani were asked with an intention that the loan waiver amount should not be misused by the middlemen.
If the banks served notices asking repayment of loans, no need to worry. They could not do anything. The government was with you. If the problem persists, meet the Deputy Commissioner and get solution, he asked the farmers.
Even in nationalized banks, the farmers were given NOC. There was no dearth of funds for farm loan waiver. It was decided to give additional Rs 2,500 crore. The government has decided to give Rs 25,000 incentives to the farmers who have taken loans from nationalized banks. The loan waiver would happen in four stages. In the next budget, Rs 25,000 crore nationalized banks loans would be waived off.
Under loan waiver scheme, total Rs 29,190 crore loan from 12 districts in Karnataka would be waived off, while Rs 12,070 crore from 12 districts of Old Karnataka, Rs 3,981 crore of three districts of central Karnataka and 1,508 crore of coastal districts would be waived off. Farmers from North Karnataka were getting total 63 per cent benefit of the scheme, he said.
“I have met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi yesterday and appealed him to declare Upper-Krishna Project as national scheme and join hands with us. During his tenure as the PM, Deve Gowda had sanctioned the irrigation projects. The Cabinet has decided to give drinking water facility to 18 villages of Badami constituency.
A sum of Rs 65,000 crore has to be given for acquiring land for Upper-Krishna Project. First water should be released to Andhra Pradesh after storing water in our land. This is the water sharing situation”, he expressed his disgust.
Budget presentation in February
“The next Budget would be presented in February. Priority would be given to permanent solutions to the farmers problem. We have decided to change the farming methods. But you have to cooperate with us. I have decided to spend more time for the development of the North Karnataka”.
- HD Kumaraswamy, Chief Minister
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
