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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farm loan waiver: Maharashtra detects 1.5 million suspicious bank accounts -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil

Farm loan waiver: Maharashtra detects 1.5 million suspicious bank accounts -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil

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published Published on Sep 27, 2017   modified Modified on Sep 27, 2017
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According to a senior BJP minister, a preliminary probe by the Maharashtra government identified these ‘bank accounts without a credible credit history’

Mumbai:
The Maharashtra government has spotted nearly 1.5 million suspicious bank accounts it suspects were created merely to grab the benefits of its Rs34,022 crore farm loan waiver.

According to a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister who is also a member of the ministerial group on farm loan waiver, a preliminary probe by the state cooperation department identified these “accounts without a credible credit history”.

“The people who have opened these accounts have been identified using their Aadhaar number and biometric information. Since most of these accounts have been opened in the last six to eight months, they do not show a long credit history that a typical farmer’s account would have. We are investigating these accounts further,” said the minister, requesting anonymity.

The cooperation department, which is implementing the farm loan waiver, has asked the state level bankers’ committee (SLBC) to investigate these accounts.

Earlier this month, senior BJP leader and revenue and PWD minister Chandrakant Patil triggered a controversy when he said the government had discovered 1 million bogus farmers among those who had applied online for the loan waiver. The minister quoted above said what Patil meant was “there are bogus accounts that have been opened by proxy farmers with the intention to take benefit of loan waiver”.

Under the online application system based on a similar digital platform that the Andhra Pradesh government used to identify deserving beneficiaries for the loan waiver, eligible farmers in Maharashtra have to fill up a two-page form at one of the 26,000 facilitation centres across the state.

Farmers must give details such as their Aadhaar number, numbers of all bank accounts held by them or family members, size of outstanding loan, land holding and crops. The government believes this system would help it build a database of farmers with authenticated biometric information that tallies with their Aadhaar numbers and bank accounts.

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