Summary:
Immediately, the Collector ordered the officials from Survey Department and the PWD officials to check and file a report within three weeks. Despite his assurance, the farmers, mostly sugarcane growers from the Alanganallur block and Usilampatti block, claimed that some banks even belittled them saying they could not even repay one EMI. The sugarcane growers’ association representatives said that the sugar mills in the district were yet to clear arrears of ?7 crore due to farmers. Presiding over, Collector K.
Veera Raghava Rao said that he would take it up with the bankers at the review meeting. more-inMADURAIComplaining that they were unable to get crop loans, a majority of the farmers took it up with the Collector at the monthly grievance redressal meeting held at the Collectorate here on Friday..