CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government will waive the loans of around 50,000 farmers, amounting to Rs 200 crore, during a state-level function in the first week of April in Gurdaspur, said a spokesperson of the state government on Sunday.
The function will be help as part of the next phase of the Congress governments debt-relief scheme. The spokesperson said all eligible farmers would be covered under the scheme and nobody would be left out. The beneficiaries will hail from Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Hoshiarpur, SBS Nagar, Amritsar and Tarn Taran, said the spokesperson.
Up to Rs 2 lakh would be provided to marginal and small farmers who have borrowed crop loan from cooperative institutions, public sector banks and other commercial banks. Unde…
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