Crop loan waiver: Beneficiaries list released

The Andhra Pradesh Government on Sunday released the first list of crop loan waiver beneficiaries.

The list has been made available on the Internet and the list of the beneficiaries would be read out at the gram sabhas. Check out the list at http://apcbsportal.ap.gov.in/loanstatus.

The Chandrababu Naidu government’s much-publicised web link giving details of crop loan waiver created more problems than it addressed. The details hosted on the website were ill-prepared, incomplete and confusing.
The site was initially difficult to access and finding that it was leading to disquiet among the formers, the AP government hurriedly stopped the website for maintenance and announced that the website would function normally from Tuesday.

RATION CARD LINKAGE: The farmers, who wanted to access their loan status had to enter their ration card or Aadhar card details. This effectively excluded few farmers. Secondly, using the ration card data, the government clubbed the farmers, who are members of a family but do farming separately. Thus many farmers were deprived of the loan waiver facility. In some more cases, farmers belonging to different households too were shown on the same ration card.

REMARKS CAUSE CONFUSION: In those cases, against the persons whose loan waiver claims have been rejected, the website showed ‘Family details not available’ in the remarks column. This again caused disquiet. In many cases, the names and details of the farmers have been wrongly entered rendering the farmers ineligible for loan waiver.