Mumbai: The first meeting of the state-appointed committee to decide the criteria of farm debt relief remained inconclusive as farmer leaders demanded loan waiver to all cultivators and sought changes in the criteria fixed for providing Rs 10,000 initial help.
Farmer leaders burnt the copy of the Government Resolution (GR) about the initial crop loan assistance, outside the Sahyadri guest house where the meeting was held, and warned to launch state-wide protest if its criteria were not changed.
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The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil.
While announcing loan waiver for marginal farmers in Maharashtra amid an intense agitation earlier this month, the governmen…
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