Shimla (PTI): Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has sought removal of numerous anomalies in the Union government's debt relief scheme so that majority of farmers of the hill state could be benefitted.

In a letter written to Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Dhumal pointed out that in a number of cases under the provisions of the scheme, many beneficiaries would be deprived of the benefits unless necessary amendments were carried and restrictions of reimbursement to the credit institutions removed.

Himachal happened to be a hilly state where marginal farmers have limited land holdings and majority consisted of the small and marginal farmers, an official release quoted him as saying.

Primary agriculture cooperative societies needed to be permitted full reimbursement of the rate of interest over the loans it had disbursed to farmers for 2006-07 as also prior to the period, he said.