1,970 farmers get loan waiver certificates

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 30

A total of 1,970 farmers from Ajnala sub-division, who owed around Rs 15 crore to cooperative banks and societies, were given loan waiver certificates by MLA Harpartap Singh Ajnala.

The MLA said the benefit was being given to farmers owing land more than two and a half acre but less than five acre. Ajnala said farm loans amounting to Rs 20 crore from subdivision were waived off in the first phase earlier.

He said that if any deserving farmer had not been able to get the benefit, he should contact SDM, Cooperative Department. Ajnala said the state government, under Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, was committed to wave farm loans as promised. He said the government was also considering loan waiver to poor and landless labourers.

The event, organised at Government Degree College Ajnala, was also attended by Kanwar Partap Singh Ajnala, SDM Rajat Oberoi, Joint Registrar Bhupinder Singh Walia, Cooperative Bank Manager Harjinder Singh Marwaha and others.