Cannot extend the debt waiver scheme to all farmers: Punjab CM

CM added that his government was reeling under a debt trap of over Rs 2 trillion when he took over from the SAD-BJP government last year

The Punjab government on Saturday said it cannot extend the debt waiver scheme to all farmers or waive more than Rs 200,000 due to lack of support from the Centre, coupled with bad finances inherited from the Akali dispensation.
 
“Considering the financial problems which my government had inherited from the Akalis, and also considering the lack of support on the issue from the central government, it is not possible, at present, to extend the debt waiver scheme to more farmers or to waive more than Rs 2 lakh,” appealing the state’s farming community to shun protest, Chief Minister Amarinder