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INDORE: The cooperative and nationalized banks have an outstanding of Rs 7445 crore distributed as agriculture loan among 2.46 lakh farmers of the district. If they don’t do it, we will launch a protest against Congress as we did against BJP,” Jadhav said. Further scrutiny of borrowers and their loan amount by departments concerned will provide exact number of farmers to be benefitted under loan waiver scheme.During assembly polls, Congress had promised to write off agriculture loan up to Rs 2 lakh from both cooperative and nationalized bank within 10 days of forming government. Of this, Indore Premier Co-operative bank has distributed around Rs 917 crore to around 60,00 farmers while nationalized banks has given Rs 6528 crore to around 1.86 lakh farmers as agriculture loan to purchase seeds, tools, fertilizer and set up dairy farm. “Farmers faced problems during BJP regime as they did not get ‘right’ value of their crops..