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Ahead of the monsoon session, Opposition parties staged a protestation connected the steps of the Maharashtra legislature analyzable present connected Monday (June 22, 2026) against the Devendra Fadnavis-led government, demanding a implicit workplace indebtedness waiver with minimal method conditions.
The protesters, led by Shiv Sena (UBT) legislators Aaditya Thackeray, Ambadas Danve and Congress's Satej Patil, raised slogans against the government.
"The farmers should get implicit indebtedness waiver. The authorities should instrumentality it," they demanded.
The State authorities has announced a indebtedness waiver for farmers, but the Opposition claimed that respective conditions attached to the strategy would exclude galore eligible beneficiaries.
NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar protested earlier this period to property for removal of “stringent” conditions from the strategy and request a broad indebtedness waiver for farmers.
On June 2, the Maharashtra Cabinet approved a ₹36,585 crore workplace indebtedness waiver scheme, which is expected to payment astir 56 lakh cultivators. The scheme, ‘Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Shetkari Karja-mukti Yojana’, provides a workplace indebtedness waiver of up to ₹2 lakh. It has 3 components — indebtedness waiver, one-time colony (OTS) and inducement benefits — and determination volition beryllium nary landholding criterion for eligibility.
Under the waiver component, farmers whose full outstanding short-term harvest loans, including main and interest, are up to ₹2 lakh volition beryllium eligible for implicit indebtedness relief. The loans indispensable person been disbursed betwixt April 1, 2019, and March 31, 2025; remained overdue arsenic of September 30, 2025; and remained unpaid till March 31, 2026.
The farmers whose dues transcend ₹2 lakh volition beryllium covered nether the OTS component. Such borrowers volition person to wide the magnitude supra ₹2 lakh, aft which they volition go eligible for a waiver of ₹2 lakh. They person been fixed until March 31, 2027, to deposit their stock of the outstanding amount.
