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PTI 12:52 PM | July 02,2009
The weavers sought waiver of loans secured from the Central Cooperative Banks
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 10:29 PM | April 07,2009
Rural India shining could be a result of deliberate actions by the incumbent government or pure coincidence. In other words, is the revival sustainable?
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PTI 11:40 AM | September 27,2008
State finance minister seeks more support for farm sector, points to low level of access to credit
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Sanjiv Shankaran and Sangeeta Singh 12:11 AM | August 29,2008
Delaying capital expenditure could lead to cost and time overruns in projects. And these, in turn, could crimp the next government’s flexibility to spend
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Sangeeta Singh 01:14 AM | August 15,2008
A Mint analysis shows that most of the claims made by the UPA government regarding achieving goals in the National Common Minimum Programme are at best half-truths
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12:23 AM | August 14,2008
The forecast deficit on the current account is 3.2% of GDP, the highest ever for India. We would have liked a tougher report to the PM from his economic advisory council
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A Staff Writer 01:04 AM | August 11,2008
Banks need to set aside Rs3,600 cr in provisions for farm loan waiver; full reimbursement of disbursals by July 2011
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A Staff Writer 12:09 AM | August 01,2008
The subsidy will have to be at least doubled if the banks are to give such loans on a no-profit, no-loss basis
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Mehak Kasbekar / Mint TV 07:28 PM | July 11,2008
Banks in Vidarbha allegedly advise farmers to borrow from moneylenders to clear pending loans with them. It allows banks to keep their books clean and farmers to take fresh, bigger loans from banks
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Mehak Kasbekar / Mint TV 08:14 PM | July 10,2008
The fresh loans banks have begun disbursing to small and marginal farmers after the government’s Rs71,680-crore debt waiver may have come too late as the sowing season began a month ago
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Mehak Kasbekar / Mint TV 09:44 PM | July 09,2008
Farmers owning large tracts of land in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region are being forced to sell their holdings to repay their debts, as the govt’s loan waiver scheme doesn’t embrace them
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Ajay Sukumaran 10:58 PM | June 30,2008
In Mandya district alone, some 58,000 cooperative society members got their loans written off through the state government scheme, while only about 13,000 will be covered in the current waiver
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Bajinder Pal Singh 01:12 AM | June 30,2008
Of two million farmers in Punjab, only 332,000 will gain; in Haryana, 664,000 among 1.7 mn will be the beneficiaries
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Vidhya Sivaramakrishnan, Mehak Kasbekar and Sanjiv Shankaran 01:24 AM | June 27,2008
Some banks seek more time to display names of beneficiaries; farmers left out angry over exclusion
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12:42 AM | June 26,2008
People in Datia are convinced there will be more wilful defaults in the future as everybody believes waivers will precede every election in the country
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