Report on investigation of jewel loan irregularities awaited: Minister
The Hindu
‘Poll promise is being fulfilled despite severe financial crunch’
Despite a severe financial crunch, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin had kept his promise to the people to waive gold loans for people belonging to below povert line (BPL) category, said Cooperation Minister I. Periyasamy here on Friday.
Speaking to reporters, he said that during electioneering, the DMK had indeed said that it would waive loans to eligible people - for the needy and whose annual income was very less. Those who had pledged gold jewellery up to a maximum of 40 grams (five sovereigns) - with one Aadhaar card and one name - were eligible.
Knowing for sure that the AIADMK would lose the Assembly elections, the then CM Edappadi K Palaniswami and his deputy O. Panneerselvam had also announced the waiver scheme with a malicious intent. Now, the officials have unearthed a scam wherein a majority of the borrowers of jewel loans during the AIADMK rule were neither farmers nor had any cultivable lands.
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