Democratic Party Nationalist (DPN) president and former minister, Ghulam Hassan Mir, and CPI(M) state secretary and former MLA Kulgam Mohammad Yousuf on Thursday demanded government to waive off the loans to the farmers in Jammu and Kashmir.
Asking the government to take cue from other states, where the Congress has already announced farm loan waivers, both the leaders in separate statements issued here said that Jammu and Kashmir Government must take an immediate decision in this regard to unburden the state’s farmers who have faced harsh weather conditions this year, which has affected their produce drastically.
“We appeal the authorities here to take cue from the government in other states and waive off the loans to the farmers,” said GH Mir.
Tarigami said: “I had recently written to J&K Governor bringing into his notice this alarming situation. However, unfortunately the demand of loan-waiver in Kashmir has not been fulfilled. It is high time that one-time waiver of KCC loans be provided to small farmers and orchardists whose harvest was damaged by the snowfall.”