Waive loans of Wayanad landslide victims; treat loan to Kerala as...

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• Subsequently, in February 2025, Priyanka had written to the PM pointing out that providing money as a loan for rehabilitation six months after the landslides was “unjust and inhumane”, the statement said.
• She had also requested the PM to waive the loans of the jeep and autorickshaw drivers, small traders and homestay operators who had lost their means of livelihood in the disaster, it said.
• The Congress MP had again made the request to the PM via another letter in October last year, it said.
• She had also asked the National Disaster Management Authority to instruct banks to waive the loans given to disaster victims using its inherent statutory powers.
• The central government had then taken a stand in the court that loans could not be waived after the amendment of the National Disaster Management Act, the statement said.