50,000 farmers to get certificates next month
Monday, 26/03/2018
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Chandigarh – Punjab government would provide debt relief to the tune of Rs 200 crore to around 50,000 beneficiaries of six districts in the next phase and a state level function to be held in first week of April at Gurdaspur. The state government has also assured that all eligible farmers under this scheme would get debt relief and no eligible farmer to be left out. Disclosing this here on Sunday a spokesperson of the Cooperative Department said the rollout of the debt relief scheme-2017 was a continuous process and every eligible farmer would be covered under this plan.
He added that around 50,000 beneficiaries of six districts namely Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr, Amritsar and Tarn Taran would get relief of around Rs 200 crore. Reiterating the resolve of the state government to fulfil its commitment of debt relief to the farmers, he informed that the scheme has been amended to obtain a self-declaration from the eligible beneficiaries thereby simplified the disbursement procedure. The spokesperson informed that state government has formulated this debt relief scheme under which relief up to Rs two lakh would be provided to marginal and small farmers who have borrowed crop loan from cooperative institutions, public sector banks and other commercial banks as on March 31, last year.
“Under the scheme, cooperative institutions and banks would upload Aadhar-based data of their beneficiaries on a web portal of the government for ascertaining the eligibility of the farmers. The data uploaded thereafter would verified by the department of revenue for identification of the farmers as small or marginal,” he added. Divulging more he said as per the provisions of the scheme, the farmers who have obtained crop loan from the cooperative institutions are to be given relief on priority.
