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TMI BlogTask Force on Farmers Loan.X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Task Force on Farmers Loan. - News and Press Release Dated:- 18-5-2012 - News - Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 18-May-2012 16:59 IST Task Force on Farmers Loan The Government of India had constituted a Task Force, under the Chairmanship of Shri U.C. Sarangi, the then Chairman, NABARD to look into the issue of a large number of farmers, who ha ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... d taken loans from private money lenders, not being covered under the loan waiver scheme. The Task Force has submitted its report to the Government in June, 2010. The Task Force s main recommendation inter-alia include the following:- Policy measures for addressing the issues of farmer s indebtedness to money lenders and measures to provide relief to farmers. (i) Various measures including t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... he Kisan Credit Card (KCC) Scheme to ensure coverage of small and marginal farmers, tenants farmers, share croppers and oral lessees by the institutional credit card fold, to reduce their dependence on informal sources. (ii) On legislation regarding loans from private money lenders and the need for a grievance redressal mechanism at the District level which is accessible to both money lenders an ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... d farmers. (iii) The Interest Subvention Scheme is being implemented by the Government of India since 2006-07 to make short-term crop loans upto Rs. 3 lakh for a period of one year available to farmers at the interest rate of 7 percent per annum. The Government of India has since 2009-10 been providing additional interest subvention to prompt payee farmers. The additional subvention was 1% in 20 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 09-10, 2% in 2010-11 and 3% in 2011-12. The Government has in the Budget speech of 2012-13 announced continuation of the scheme in 2012-13 Banks have been advised to issue Kisan Credit Cards (KCCs) to all eligible farmers and General Credit Cards(GCCs) to non-farmers. A new scheme for KCC has been circulated by NABARD/RBI. This information was given by the Minister of State for Finance, Shri N ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... amo Narain Meena in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today. ***** DSM/SS/SL - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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