This Government gave a debt waiver package last year. We know the results. Nothing has changed. Dr. Swaminathan has given a very clear recommendation. Hon. Header of the House knows about it. Dr. Swaminathan said that credit facilities, affordable credit, remunerative prices to the farm produce power and irrigation farm inputs at subsidised rates are very important. We have been pleading we have been urging the Union Government that the interest rate on farm loans should be slashed to four per cent. That is recommended in the Dr. Swaminanthan Committee's Report. This Government appointed that Committee to go into the agrarian crisis. That was one of his important recommendations. But even today the nationalised banks are giving farm loans at the rate of seven per cent. Our Government in Karnataka, headed by the hon. Chief Minister B.S. Yeddiyurappa has brought it down to three per cent. Another Government of ours, in Madhya Pradesh under the leadership of Shir Shivraj Singh Chauhan has slashed the interest rate on farm loans to four per cent. I do not understand what this Government is doing about it apart from shedding crocodile tears about the plight of the farmers. I do not understand what the Union Government, which talks about Aam Aadmi today, which talked about Garibi Hatao years back, is doing about it. What about the rising unemployment during these times of recession? About a year ago, in 2008 when we raised this subject in this august house, the Prime Minister and the then Finance Minister said, Do not worry. The Indian economy is decoupled with the world economy especially is insulated that our fundamentals are strong, and that we need not worry. We were told that everything was hunky-dory. But what has happened, Sir.
