Madikeri: President of Madikeri Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank B.P. Kaveriappa has said that the Government's stance on "jamma" landholders in Kodagu has affected the bank's prospects too.

The Government recently announced that loans up to Rs. 25,000 taken from cooperative banks would be waived. But the scheme did not apply to Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank, he said.

Owing to this, people who had obtained loans were not paying the instalments. Earlier, farmers had to produce coffee registration certificates (CRC) to obtain loans. But owing to a recent circular from the Revenue Secretary, the district administration had stopped the process of issuing CRCs, Mr. Kaveriappa alleged.

At a recent Karnataka Development Programme meeting, district in-charge Minister Ramachandra Gowda instructed Revenue department officials not to stop issuing CRCs. But the officials had violated the order by saying that CRCs would be issued only after receiving a fresh order from the Revenue Secretary, Mr. Kaveriappa said.

K.G. Bopaiah, Madikeri MLA, had clarified with Revenue Minister Jagadish Shettar and it was found that the latter had not signed any document banning issuing of CRCs on "jamma" land. The issue had figured in the Assembly recently. Officials providing wrong information to the Government in the Assembly should be punished, he said.

Revenue officials had been meddling with the affairs of Kodagu. It could alienate the people and make them launch an agitation, Mr. Kaveriappa said.

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