Mumbai, Dec 7 (PTI) The Maharashtra government hasapproved the farm loan waiver of 41 lakh farmers to the tuneof Rs 19,537 crore till now, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavissaid today.
"Around 77 lakh online applications were received outof which action has been taken on 69 lakh applications afterresolving the lacunae. The government has, uptil now, approvedRs 19,537 crore for 41 lakh farmers accounts," a statementissued by the Chief Minister's office said.
Out of Rs 19,537 crore, a sum of Rs 4673 crore is partof One Time Settlement (OTS), the statement added.
Fadnavis chaired a meeting of the State Level BankersCommittee to review the progress of crediting of waiver amountinto accounts of farmers under the Chhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj Shetkari Sanman scheme.
The CM asked banks to speed up the process of actualdisbursement into farmer accounts and also insisted for morecoordinated efforts in implementing the OTS.
Meanwhile, the Leader of Opposition in the LegislativeCouncil Dhananjay Munde claimed that the figures provided byFadnavis were "fake" and asked him to reveal the names offarmers who have benefitted from the scheme.
"This is the seventh day of our padyatra. Till nowwe have not met a single farmer who received the loan waiveramount," he said.
He claimed that the foot march by the NationalistCongress Party (NCP) against the government will havedisastrous consequences for the BJP.
Munde further said that he saw crops destroyed bybollworms when he visited a cotton farm at Pavnar village inWardha district.
"Instead of compensating the farmer for the loss, thefarmer told us that government officials asked him to sellwhatever cotton was left and pay the electricity bill," hesaid.
Munde added that the farmer, as a mark of protestagainst the state government, asked him to run a plough on agrown cotton field.
"Since the farmer forced me to do so, I did it with aheavy heart," he said. PTI MMBNM.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.