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Last updated: 26 May, 2017  

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SME Times News Bureau | 26 May, 2017
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah urged the state-run banks and cooperatives to grant fresh loans to farmers, reeling under the impact of severe drought across the state.

"There is an urgent need to financially assist the farmers to mitigate their hardship, as 139 local bodies (sub-districts) during the 2016 kharif season and 160 local bodies for the rabi season were declared drought-hit across the state," said the Chief Minister at the State-Level Bankers' Committee meet here on Thursday.

Projecting the annual credit plan for this fiscal (2017-18) at Rs 1,60,020 crore, the Chief Minister, who also holds the finance portfolio, regretted that the targets set for a similar plan in the last two fiscals 2015-16 and 2016-17 were not achieved under the education and housing loan portfolios.

"I found the disbursement under the housing loan portfolio declined to Rs 5,916 crore in 2016-17 from Rs 9,061 crore in 2015-16," noted Siddaramaiah.

The disbursement under the education loan also declined to Rs 1,639 crore in 2016-17 from Rs 2,248 crore in 2015-16.

"Banks have achieved only 80 per cent of the target set for crop credit disbursement for 2016-17,'' recalled Siddaramah on the occasion.
 
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