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Adityanath rolls out crop loan waiver scheme

Terms it as template of BJP's pro-farmer governance

Yogi Adityanath, UP CM, Adityanath
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditiyanath during the 71st Independence Day function in Vidhan Sabha in Lucknow on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday rolled out the flagship crop loan waiver scheme by handing over loan waiver certificates to the beneficiaries in Lucknow.

On the occasion, waiver certificates were issued to over 7,500 farmers of Lucknow. In the coming weeks, similar events would be held in all the districts to distribute such certificates by the local legislators, Parliamentarians and minister in charges.

The loan waiver scheme would cost the state exchequer Rs 36,000 crore, which the government has already allocated in the annual budget passed by the UP assembly last month. The funds were