Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh new Congress chief minister Kamal Nath announced loan waiver for farmers minutes after assuming the office on Monday. 

Issuing a government notification, Kamal Nath has waived off farmers loan upto Rs 2 lakh. The notification issued by the state farmers welfare and agriculture development department on 17/12/2018 says that all the short term loans given by the government and public sector banks be waived off.