Budget session: Abhay Singh Chautala questioned how much farm credit the banks owe to farmers

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Chandigarh. During question time of the budget session, Abhay Singh Chautala, Secretary General of the INLD and MLA of Ellenabad, successively fired several questions to the government. He asked the government how much agricultural credit was outstanding from banks to state farmers. How long will the government enact a law waiving farm credits for farmers how many farmers have committed suicide due to farm credits and MSP related to crops? He left the house after getting angry because he didn’t get any answers to the questions.

He said that it is about the credit the farmers have taken from the banks, at least the full details should be disclosed by the government. The number of farmers who have taken out loans from banks has also received less mention from the government, while one report said about 19,000 farming families in the state have taken out loans. As of 2014, this results in a loan amount for one person of 99,000.212 rupees. In five years to 2019, this loan amount doubled to 1 lakh 82,922 rupees. Disclosing the banks’ loans to farmers, he said the actual amount of this loan is Rs 78,000 311 crore. The Cooperative Minister presented only the Cooperative Bank’s figures to the meeting, while the Agriculture Minister was asked to provide the figures for all banks. The government, as always, has misled the House and State people to avoid the question being asked. He said on the SIT report on alcohol fraud that earlier it was said that the Home Secretary would respond and he was not present that day, today the Excise Minister responds while the same Excise Minister was present in the House that day. Then why did he answer that? He described the excise minister’s reply as a bundle of lies. During the Corona epidemic and during the lockdown, the status of the report by the SIT, which was used to investigate alcohol fraud in the state, was sought, why this report has not been published until now. He questioned all three committees and said if the government set up a committee of inquiry then their report should come out too. But all these questions asked were not mentioned in the minister’s answer. What all these reports hid: The government should say how much year after year it was able to stop the loss of revenue from illegal sales after 2020. According to the CAG report, government revenue was cut by Rs.106.76 crore. Cameras were mentioned in the minister’s reply, where is the report of the cameras that were monitored when illegal alcohol was extracted from the distillery?

 

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