Owing helping hand, Maharashtra govt aids landless laborers to acquire land by paying only 5%

Mumbai, May 23: The land of Maharashtra has always been coined to grace with the essence of solidarity and agrarian benefits. In a new move to make things feasible for the ‘annadata’s of the state, the Maharashtra government has introduced a new scheme that will help the landless laborers of the Schedule Castes to acquire agricultural land.

Pertaining particularly to the landless among the SCs, the laborers can now purchase acres of rainfed agricultural land or two acres of irrigated land by paying only 5% of the cost. The rest up to 8 lakh rupees will be born in by the state government.

 

This move came in as a revised attempt to benefit the landless laborer under the Dadasaheb Gaikwad empowerment of scheduled caste landless laborers scheme which provided 50% subsidy and was found inadequate and benefited only about five thousand landless laborers from SCs in the State so far.

The scheme was launched with the aim to uplift the livelihood of the laborers belonging to the Schedule Caste and Nav Buddhist people who belonged to the Below Poverty Line sector. The state government has aimed to benefit and make these people develop educationally, economically and socially.

The Maharashtra government earlier gave a big relief to farmers of Maharashtra, as Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced a fresh ‘loan waiver’ package for the farmers who could not repay their farm loans availed between 2001 and 2009. These farmers will now be eligible to avail benefits of loan waiver package- Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Shetkari Sanman Yojana.