The reported shortcomings in implementation of the loan waiver scheme dominated the discourse at the Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s in-camera session with the TDP MLAs and MPs from the twin Godavari districts at Nidadavole in West Godavari district on Monday. Party MLAs- Pitani Satyanarayana from Achanta and Gorantla Buchchaiah Chowdary from Rajahmundry, were said to have brought to Mr. Naidu’s notice the growing dissent in a section of farmers on the loan waiver.
The government has released money for waiving debts not exceeding Rs 50,000 each across the board in the first phase. But it failed to reach the farmers’ accounts, they alleged.
Some farmers also reportedly found meagre amounts ranging between Rs 5,000 and Rs 15,000 in their accounts, they said, while requesting Mr. Naidu to keep the record straight.
According to official data, the district has received Rs. 369 crore to free 3.5 lakh farmers from debts. In some cases, the farmers did not receive acknowledgement slips for loan waiver owing to postal delays .
Further, many ryots were said to have lost the chance of availing interest-free loans up to Rs 1 lakh as they deferred the repayment of dues, waiting for delivery of the loan waiver. They failed to find their names in the beneficiary list at the end of the day, it is said. The Chief Minister asked Collector Bhaskar Katamneni to sort out the issues raised by the MLAs .
