Rs 9,448 Cr current loan in coop societies to be waived: CM Kumaraswamy
Cabinet takes decision
Bengaluru, August 9: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that the Cabinet has decided to waive off current loan up to Rs 1 lakh availed from cooperative societies till July 10, 2018.
Speaking to reporters after a Cabinet meeting at the Vidhana Soudha here on Thursday, the CM said that out of Rs 10,734 crore loan in cooperative societies, Rs 9,448 crore would be waived off. This decision would help 20.38 lakh farmers who are members in the cooperative societies, he said.
There was no paucity of funds to waive off the farmers loans. But during the renewal of loans, the Finance department would release the amount based on the demand of the Cooperative department to be submitted every month. In the next Cabinet meeting, a decision would be taken to waive off Rs 6,500 crore loan availed from nationalized banks in the second phase, for which necessary process was taking place and discussions with the bankers were going on, he added.
Exuding confidence that instead of four phases, the loan waiver process could be completed by next year, the Chief Minister said that the guidelines being followed to waive off the loans were also discussed in the Cabinet meeting and it was decided to drop the norm that each family would get waiver of loan benefit up to one lakh, he said.
“The government is committed to empower the farmers financially. It is our priority to protect you. Don’t commit suicide and push your families on to the streets”, he said.
Reports were appeared in newspapers on cutting of funds for Shaadi Bhagya and dropping of Matru Poorna scheme. No programmes announced in the Siddaramaiah government in the Budget presented in last February were dropped in the Vote-on-account. Additional programmes were included, he clarified.
Mekedatu project
Water Resources Minister DK Shivakumar on Wednesday met Union Minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi and appealed him to convene a meeting of the concerned states regarding implementation of Mekedatu project. This project would help Tamil Nadu farmers, for which, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, political leaders and farmers would be taken into confidence to implement the project, he said.
Cooperative Minister Bandeppa Kashempur said that the Cabinet has approved to purchase shoes, socks, tie and belts for the students of schools and colleges run by the State Residential Education Institutions Association at a cost of Rs 10.36 crore. It was also decided to constitute a Cabinet Sub Committee led by Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar on recommending the Cabinet regarding dropping various criminal cases at the time of trials in various courts. The Cabinet also approved the construction of railway upper bridge and connecting road on Holenarasipura-Mavinakere road at a cost of Rs 39.93 crore with the help of the central government, he said. Tourism Minister Sa Ra Mahesh was also present.
Under trials to be released
To mark the Independence Day, the Cabinet has decided to recommend the Governor to release 93 under trials serving their life imprisonment in different jails of the state following their virtuous conduct.
- Bandeppa Kashempur, Cooperative Minister
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PM Modi, RSS strengthening wall in path of SCs, STs, OBCs: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS were strengthening the wall standing in the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, even as he acknowledged that the UPA took steps to weaken that wall but not to the extent it should have.
Addressing the 'Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan', Gandhi also referred to the function held on Constitution Day in Parliament and said that it is his guarantee, that "Modi has not read" the Constitution.
"If PM Modi would have read this book then what he does daily, he would not do it," Gandhi said, displaying a copy of the Constitution of India.
Gandhi said the country's whole system is pitted against Dalits, Adivasis and backward class people.
He said a wall obstructs the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs and Modi and the RSS are strengthening that wall by "adding cement to it".
"Slowly the wall (obstructing the path of SCs, STs, OBCs) is getting strengthened. Earlier, the UPA government gave MGNREGA, the land acquisition act, the right to food...those were ways to weaken that wall. Today, when I look back, I can say the UPA government did not weaken the wall to the extent it should have, it did not do it as strongly as it should have," Gandhi said.
"However, we used to make efforts to weaken that wall but they (the BJP) are strengthening that wall by adding concrete," the former Congress president said.
Gandhi said a caste survey being carried out in Telangana is a historic step and the Congress will do the same wherever it comes to power.
