Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase assistance under PM-Kisan to Rs 10,000 from Rs 6,000 per year. In a letter written to the Prime Minister, Patnaik also appealed for the inclusion of landless labourers, sharecroppers and vulnerable agricultural households under the Central sector Scheme PM-KISAN.

Naveen Patnaik urges PM Modi to increase PM-KISAN aid to Rs 10,000

The Congress promised to waive off loans to farmers in the run-up to the recent Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, and won the right to rule those states.

The economics and politics of loan waivers

Assembly election results in five states reflect the anger of the farmers who have waited for four-and-a-half years for the government to fulfil their poll promise of loan waiver and minimum support price (MSP) for the crops in accordance with the Swaminathan report.

Farmers' woes: Without MSP hike, loan waivers won't end agrarian crisis

According to sources, the government has worked out a slew of measures to ensure farmers' dues are cleared by mills. 'A bailout package of Rs 7,000 crore has been proposed'

Government likely to announce Rs 7,000-crore bailout package for sugar mills

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Naveen Patnaik urges PM Modi to increase PM-KISAN aid to Rs 10,000

The economics and politics of loan waivers

Farmers' woes: Without MSP hike, loan waivers won't end agrarian crisis

Government likely to announce Rs 7,000-crore bailout package for sugar mills