Farm loan waiver: ‘Centre won’t share State burden’

September 22, 2017 12:00 am | Updated 04:39 am IST - KALABURAGI

Union Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar has said that the Centre would not share the financial burden of farm loan waiver announced by the States. If the State wants to write off farm loan, it has to bear the burden from its exchequer, he said.

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