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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Do farmers disturb credit culture more than industry? -Prabhakar Kulkarni

Do farmers disturb credit culture more than industry? -Prabhakar Kulkarni

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published Published on Apr 19, 2017   modified Modified on Apr 19, 2017
-TheHoot.org

Maharashtra’s farm daily Agrowon offered a counter to the SBI chief, the RBI governor, and English newspapers critical of the UP farm loan waiver.

The Marathi agriculture daily Agrowon has criticized both the RBI governor Urjit Patel and State Bank of India’s Arundhati Bhattacharya  who have objected to the farm  loan waiver in Uttar Pradesh and similar demands elsewhere. The paper’s line is quite different from that of the mainstream English press which has been sharply critical of Yogi Adityanath’s Rs 36,359 crore munificence.

Patel is quoted as having said, "I think it (loan waiver schemes) undermines an honest credit culture. It impacts credit discipline. It (impacts) incentives for future borrowers to repay. In another words, waivers engender moral hazard," he said after announcing the first bi-monthly monetary policy for 2017-18.

He added that debt waivers also entail transfers from taxpayers to borrowers.  Then there was more. "If on account of this overall government borrowing goes up, yields on government bonds also get impacted. Thereafter, it can also lead to crowding of the private borrowers as higher government borrowing can lead to increasing cost of borrowing for others.”

Agrowon responded in an editorial:  “The chief of  the State Bank of India Arundhati Bhattacharya has made a statement against the farmers’ loan waiver saying that farmers’ should not be given loan waiver because that disturbs the credit discipline. Following this the Governor of Reserve Bank of India Urjit Patel has also opposed the farmers’ loan waiver saying that would disturb the honest credit culture. These high level persons are opposing the move when at the highest level pro-farmer considerations are going on and demand for loan waiver is being put forth in many states.

It adds, “In fact banks which were formerly limited for serving big industrialists were twice nationalized in order to provide benefits to farmers and common citizens. But these banks are providing credit to big industrialists thereby disturbing the very spirit of nationalization. The banks have two-fold policy of doing favour to big borrowers and disregarding any relief or due credit to farmers.”  

The paper adds that  banks have followed one criteria while providing credit and waiver of loans to big industrialists and the other negative one for farmers and this amounts to double standards on the part of the banks. “There are large number of cases in the country wherein crores of rupees loans are given by banks sidetracking due rules and regulations. When these loans are not repaid they are shown as NPAs and later they are written off to clear the balance sheets. This process is going on every year. These written off cases are nothing but clear loan waivers.”

It goes on to say that this ‘writing off’ process reduces dividend of banks’ shares and incurs loss to the government. On the contrary when farmers are given loan waiver the amount is paid by the government without any loss to the banks and on the contrary their profits are increased.

Agrowon ends by saying that it should “therefore be noted that farmers are repaying their loans and only due to natural calamities and also some anti-farm government policies their monetary conditions are perturbed resulting in crisis.”  

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TheHoot.org, 17 April, 2017, http://www.thehoot.org/media-watch/regional-media/do-farmers-disturb-credit-culture-more-than-industry-10049


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