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The Tamil Nadu Vivasaya Sangankalin Kootiyakkam has urged the authorities to afloat waive the cooperative workplace loans of farmers, based connected their onshore holdings without immoderate ceiling connected the indebtedness amount.
The federation maintained that Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay had failed to travel retired with a wide announcement connected the workplace indebtedness waiver successful his code astatine a nationalist gathering successful Tiruchi connected Monday.
“Usually, harvest indebtedness waiver would beryllium offered lone based connected the grade of onshore holding of farmers. For the archetypal time, the waiver was announced with a ceiling connected the recognition magnitude to beryllium waived. But the expenditure incurred for cultivation of assorted crops disagree and fixing a ceiling of ₹50,000 for waiver is inherently wrong. The authorities should instantly region this norm and spell by the grade of onshore holding and afloat waive each cooperative workplace loans. As per Cooperative Act, farmers with onshore holdings of up to 5 acres are categorised arsenic tiny farmers and adjacent if they had taken a workplace indebtedness of ₹2 lakh, the loans should beryllium afloat waived,” the federation president Cauvery Dhanapalan, who presided implicit the meeting, said.
Mekedatu plan
Expressing interest implicit the Karnataka determination to physique a balancing reservoir crossed the River Cauvery astatine Mekedatu, the gathering said farmers of the delta were acceptable to attack the Supreme Court straight against the determination arsenic the tribunal had rejected the Tamil Nadu’s reappraisal petition connected the contented recently. “The State authorities should enactment america by adopting a solution successful the Assembly,” Mr. Dhanapalan said.
The federation urged the authorities to integrate the Agriculture, Horticulture, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Marketing and Agri Business and guarantee the deployment of an hold idiosyncratic for each 2 villages.
A delegation of leaders of 10 farmers organisations would soon effort to conscionable the Chief Minister to sermon the issues, The federation would motorboat a protestation if the authorities did not hold to these demands, Mr. Dhanapalan said.
Senior farmers leaders, including Mahadhanapuram V. Rajaram, president, Cauvery Irrigation Farmers’ Welfare Association; P. Ayyakannu, president, Desiya Thennidiya Nadhigal Inaippu Vivasayigal Sangam; and G.S. Dhanapathy, State General Secretary, Farmer’s Forum of India, attended the meeting, according to Mr. Dhanapalan.
