Agriculture Minister Badal on Friday assured the farmers of the State that the loan waiver of up to Rs 50,000 will be done for them on December 29, on completion of one year term of the coalition government in the State.
Badal held a review meeting with the Development Commissioner, Principal Secretary of Finance Department, Principal Secretary of Agriculture Department and other senior officials in the Jharkhand Government regarding loan waiver of up to Rs 50,000 for farmers.
The entire process is being completed to implement it and now only his final nod remains.
The Agriculture Minister said that many dreams were woven before the outbreak of global pandemic Corona infection, but the circumstances have changed due to the pandemic, in while neither the Central Government was able to provide any special assistance during this period, but also it is not giving compensation amount of GST.
Despite this, the State Government has made a provision of Rs 2,000 crore in the budget for loan waiver of farmers on its own resources.
Badal said that at present the farmers all over the Country are agitating about the policies of the Central Government, it has also been seen that the construction of storage rooms in various states by Adani-Ambani of food grains before the Central Government enacted the three laws.
It is natural for farmers to be sceptical of such an attempt even before the Central Government enacts the laws, he added.
He said that right now in those states where a government of BJP or BJP alliance is there in the Country, decisions are being taken which the big capitalists want without any discussion on the issues related to farmers and public interest. “If there was a discussion in all the legislative assemblies across the Country about the law related to agriculture, then everything would have come to the fore, but on the subject related to the State Governments like agriculture, the Central Government itself is taking decisions and imposing all the decisions on the states,” he added.
The Agriculture Minister said that the Jharkhand Government has constituted a high-level committee to make necessary amendments in the laws related to agriculture, which will see how the State Government, by staying within the federal structure and constitutional scope, can amends the agricultural law in the interest of farmers. The committee will study the provision made by the Punjab and Rajasthan Governments, to what extent the State Government can go against the law imposed by the Centre, the State Government will take a decision on this after the full report.