Published : The Times Of India
/15-Dec-2016
As farmers in the state bear the brunt of demonetisation move, chief minister Shri Naveen Patnaik sought Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's intervention to ease the chaos. In a letter to Modi, the Chief Minister requested him to ensure availability of adequate currency to the district central cooperative banks (DCCBs) by the commercial banks. This will enable the DCCBs to provide crop loans to farmers and also pay them their paddy procurement proceeds as well as insurance claims, Naveen noted in his letter