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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Demonetisation: If rural cooperative banks sink, so will farmers -Ajay Vir Jakhar

Demonetisation: If rural cooperative banks sink, so will farmers -Ajay Vir Jakhar

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published Published on Nov 21, 2016   modified Modified on Nov 21, 2016
-The Economic Times

Farmers accustomed to decades of government policy failure are willing to bear the pain caused by the government’s decision to recall Rs 500 & 1000 bills, but engineering a systematic failure of the rural cooperative banking sector would be an unpardonable desecration.

Earlier rural bank branches were given a step motherly treatment: Rural cooperative bank branches were not replenished with lower denomination currency, while the newer higher denomination notes were issued to bank branches in cities. Now all district cooperative banks have been directed not to exchange or even accept Rs 500 & 1000 bills from account holders. It will have a multiplier impact. Most small farmers deal with such banks and primary agriculture societies (PAX). Farmers receive most direct credit for farm inputs from PAX. Possibly the establishment did not fully grasp the extent of the implications of the notification.

Farmers operate through these institutions for their kisan credit card. New rules won’t allow them to deposit money in their own accounts, but they will continue to be charged interest by the bank for the loan availed. Cooperative banks will start to collapse as they fail to recover loans. Being the sowing season, PAX stores are filled with fertilisers, they will be unable to supply these to their own farmers as per rules because past loans remain unpaid. PAX aren’t even allowed to operate with public sector banks, so are in a Catch-22 situation on what to do.

Many farmers have also availed of revolving cash credit limit which needs to be deposited at harvest time. When bank refuse to accept payment, these deposits will become NPA in the books of the bank and bank balance sheets will be decimated. People are starting to withdraw deposits from cooperative banks and good capital will flow to private or public sector banks, never to return again. Wherever rural cooperative banks branches have online facility this draconian notification should not have been evoked at all.

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The Economic Times, 17 November, 2016, http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/et-commentary/demonetisation-if-rural-cooperative-banks-sink-so-will-farmers/


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