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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Economists should try farming before opposing loan waiver: Chidambaram

Economists should try farming before opposing loan waiver: Chidambaram

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published Published on Dec 24, 2018   modified Modified on Dec 24, 2018
-The Hindu

Bengaluru: Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said farm loan waiver is “imperative” given the agrarian crisis in the country and the economists critical of the scheme should do farming on two acres of land for 10 years before commenting on it.

“Economists who are criticising farm loan waiver must experience what farming is in this country. Take two acres of land and do farming for 10 years and then comment on the loan waiver,” he said. Replying to questions on the loan waiver during a press meet at the Congress office here, Mr. Chidambaram said, “People will decide if farm loan waiver is good or bad politics. The economists and technocrats cannot decide the quality of politics; they can only decide the quality of economics.

Referring to loan waiver announcements made recently by three Congress-ruled States — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh — he said, “Farm loan waiver is imperative today. Our governments have responded to the dire needs of the situation.”

In one district of Maharashtra, he said, 108 farmers had committed suicide.

“Out of 10 crore farming families, 5.28 crore are in debt, with the average debt being Rs.90,000 to Rs.1 lakh. How then will families repay the loan?” he said.

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