After publicly alleygating PMFBY, farmer receives 70,000 loans waived  

STRAP:  Despite BJP being in the central power in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena chief, Uddhav Thackeray have been regularly hitting on BJP.

NP NEWS 24 ON LINE- As elections are just around the corner, every party have pulled up their socks on backlashing the opposition parties. Uddhav Thackeray, chief of Shiv Sena is in Marathwada driveway. While addressing a rally in Beeb, Uddhav Thackeray addressed the drought hit regions and openly fired back on Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY).

While firing on Modi governments scheme, Uddhav mentioned that the government does not care whether the farmer lives or dies. The government is only announcing to provide money bout in reality, is it actually giving money? Uddhav also questioned the audience as how many farmers loan been waived by the government and have received the certificate? many farmers from the crowed accepted that they have not received any relief.

After which, he called a farmer Balasaheb Solanki on stage who have received a certificate on his loan of 98 thousand have been waived. But in reality, his loan has not been waived. Which raised fingers on the scheme.

Uddhav also slammed the government for showing citizens false statics of loan waiving while no one have received anything in reality and how reliable are these certificates?

3 hours after the telecast, Balasaheb Solanki received a call from the PMFBY saying from the 98,000 loan, 70,000 amounts have been waived from his account. Along with that he also received an apology for no action been taken in 15 months.

Balasaheb Solanki’s family consists of grandmother, mother, brother’s family, wife and children. He owns 1200 acres of land. In 2012, Solanki borrowed a loan of 68,814 rupees from the local branch of State Bank of India. However, due to drought, it could not be repaid. The loan amount increased to 9 8,950 rupees with interest. After been reject for 15 months from various departments now he has received some relief. But the question is, why didn’t he receive it before in 15 months?

Justifying the allegation, Bank manager of the local SBI bank, Milind Rote said that the account number was wrong from what Solanki was applying online.

PMFBY is the Centre’s flagship scheme to insure crops against the vagaries of weather and other risks. Farmers pay a premium of 2 per cent (of the total premium) for the kharif season and 1.5 per cent for rabi crops.