In a special meeting held at Uttar Pradesh Regional Office of NABARD
at Lucknow to review the progress under ambitious campaign to provide Kisan
Credit Cards (KCC) to all eligible farmers in the state, Shri Surya Pratap
Shahi, Agriculture Minister, advised RRBs and Cooperative banks to further step up their efforts in
association with Agriculture & Revenue departments of the State Govt to
issue planned 25 lakh fresh KCCs to farmers by 31 July 2019. He advised Chiefs
of the banks that the State Govt was proactive to waive the overdue loans of
farmers to enable easing of NPA position of banks and facilitating flow of
fresh KCC loans to farmers. He said that under PM Kisan Samman Yojana, farmers
are also receiving income support and maximum farmers covered under the scheme
are from Uttar Pradesh. He exhorted banks to adopt positive approach for
purveying higher credit flow to agriculture sector for its sustained growth and
enhancing farmers income. He also advised the officials of agricultuire
department to mobilise KCC loan applications from all eligible farmers together
with verified land records for facilitating banks to sanction loans. He further
said that in view of ongoing Kharif sowing, the process must be expedited and
KCC loans be covered under insurance under PMFBY.
Speaking at the meeting Shri S A Pande, CGM NABARD, exhorted that
both the grassroots level Govt machinery and bank branches must work in tandem
to achieve the KCC target in the available short span of time. He further
advised the cooperative banks to make best use of their outreach through
cooperative societies to extend KCCs to all eligible farmer members. He
informed that both RRBs and cooperative banks are expected to achieve around
8.50 lakh fresh KCCs which would be 1/3rd of State’s target of 25
lakh. He advised that KCCs may also be
extended to persons pursuing animal husbandry and fishery.
The SLBC convenor , Dr.
Ramjass Yadav, GM, Bank of Baroda informed that a total number of 16672 camps
have been organised within 02 weeks of the campaign wherein, total of 47268
fresh KCCs have been issued by all the banks in State. He exhorted banks and
Govt agencies to double their efforts to reach the target and report data on a
portal specially designed by the SLBC.
Shri Andra Vamsi, IAS, Additional RCS advised cooperative banks to
seek this opportunity to cover maximum eligible farmers under KCC in their area
of operation and achieve the targets within stipulated time.
Responding to the expectations of the minister, the Chiefs of RRBs
and Cooperative Banks assured that with the active cooperation of agriculture
and revenue departments, every effort would be made to achieve the target of
issuing fresh KCC assigned to them.
