The Telangana government Friday proposed to waive all agriculture term loans up to Rs 1 lakh outstanding as on December 11, 2018. "Towards this, an amount of Rs 6,000 crore is proposed," Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who also holds the finance portfolio, said while presenting the vote-on-account budget for 2019-20 in the legislative assembly.

Telangana government proposes to waive farm loans up to Rs 1 lakh

The farmers' long march from Nashik to Mumbai will continue after their leaders' late night parleys with Maharashtra government to address their demands remained inconclusive, the march organisers said Thursday.

Farmers' march to Mumbai will continue as talks inconclusive

About Rs 1.47 lakh crore of agricultural loans are outstanding in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh, which announced waivers recently.

Generalised farm loan waiver impacts credit culture, says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

It is unfortunate that the most important product in the world, food, suffers from an intransigent pricing problem. The producers never get the right price, rarely make enough profits to survive and are invariably veering between bankruptcy and debt.

Agrarian crisis: Farm loan waiver is not the solution

Days after the Congress government announced farm loan waiver in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the Rajasthan government on Wednesday declared a farm loan waiver for loans up to Rs 2 lakh.

After Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Congress announces farm loan waiver in Rajasthan

Congress announces farm loan waivers in three states

Kisan politics is back in India with a bang. Congress president Rahul Gandhi announced in Delhi that in case Prime Minister Narendra Modi fails to announce farm loan waiver for the farmers, the Congress would do so if it comes to power in 2019.

Raining farm loan waivers: Kisan politics is back with bang

Addressing India's distressed farmers directly from Parliament, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday he will not let Prime Minister Narendra Modi sleep until all farms loans have been waived.

Won't let PM Modi sleep until all farms loans waived: Rahul Gandhi

Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan Friday said farm loan waiver should not form part of poll promises and he has written to Election Commission that such issues should be taken off the table.

Agri loan waiver should not form part of poll promises: Rajan