₹2.5 lakh crore farm loan waivers announced...
Only half of the eligible farmers got the benefitThe country's largest farmer loan waiver scheme was done by maharashtra in the year 2020, in which 91% of the total eligible farmers got the benefit. At the same time, during the loan waiver of 2014 in Telangana, only 5% of eligible farmers' loans were waived. In the loan waiver scheme done in chhattisgarh, punjab and madhya pradesh in the year 2018, where chhattisgarh benefited all 9 lakh eligible farmers. At the same time, out of 48 lakh eligible people in madhya pradesh, only 12% of farmers' loans (agriculture loan waiver) were waived. 3 out of every four accounts are standard, so who benefits? It has also been told in the sbi research report that most of the farmers who were made eligible for these schemes (Kisan Vikas Patra) had their bank accounts as standard. Out of 3 crore eligible farmers mentioned in the research, transactions were going smoothly in about 73%. A standard bank account means that transactions, loans and interest payments are going on properly in this account. In such a situation, the question has been raised in the report if the targeted farmers did not get the benefit of a loan waiver, then who benefited from it?