Hooda asks people to derive benefits of loan waiver scheme

Kaithal, May 6 (UNI) Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today appealed to the people to avail the maximum benefit of the loan waiver scheme under which the government has waived off the interest and penalty on cooperative loans worth Rs 825 crore of the artisans, labourers and the marginal farmers.

Mr Hooda, who was addressing a public meeting at Khurana village said that under the scheme, those who deposit the entire principal amount of loan taken from the Cooperative Banks up to June 30, can avail the benefit of the scheme. Besides this, the government had also decided to give a rebate of two per cent in the interest to those persons who had been returning the loans of Cooperative Banks within the scheduled time.

He said that the government had also abolished the law under which the farmers were arrested for non-payment of their cooperative loans.

He said that the government had decided to set up Haryana Rural Development Authority on the pattern of the Haryana Urban Development Authority. This Authority would provide all modern facilities including sewerage to the people of rural areas so as to prevent their migration to urban areas.

He said that the government had given the status of martyrs to all those farmers who were killed during Kandela incident. One member of each affected family was also given a government job.

Immediately after assuming the office, Mr Hooda said that his government had waived off power arrears of Rs 1600 crore.

The Chief Minister informed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would lay the foundation stone of the 1200 MW Thermal Power Plant at village Khedar in district Hisar on May 19. While assuring the people of uninterrupted power supply in next 28 months, he said that the government had initiated various projects for the generation of 5000 MW of additional power in the state.

The additional power generation would start with the commissioning of the first unit of 300 MW of Yamunanagar Thermal Power Plant from November this year, he said.

He said that the government was purchasing power for the farmers at a high rate of Rs 8 per unit from other states so as to save their crops.

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