Budget yatra: Vidarbha farmers unhappy with government aid CNN-IBN's Budget Yatra has reached the country's cotton belt of Maharashtra. The Vidharbha region is infamous for farmer suicides and is still struggling with cotton production down by 40 per cent. In the same village that was visited by the Prime Minister who announced the farm waiver, six years later the situation is the same farmers are back in debt and struggling. Most say they are against free dole but...  
08:59 AM, Feb 15, 2013

UP CM announces waiver on farm loans Lucknow: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's 73rd birthday has brought along a bonanza for Uttar Pradesh's farmers. His son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has announced a waiver of farm loans up to Rs 50,000. Approximately 7.5 lakh farmers are likely to benefit from this scheme. The scheme is expected to cost the UP exchequer Rs 1,650 crore. In its election manifesto, the Samajwadi Party had promised...  
01:49 PM, Nov 22, 2012

Karnataka to balance arrack ban Karnataka bans arrack and all forms of lottery and waived off the interest on farm loans paid before March 31. ...  
08:29 PM, Mar 16, 2007