Therefore, it is creating a lot of hardship to the people. Then, this Government is very famous for going back on its words. When the recent floods took place in Orissa, they promised us Rs. 500 Crore. The Central Team visited Orissa six months after the floods. We have been given only around Rs. 200 crore and we have to get Rs. 300 crore more. They have an announcement that they have a Budget provision for flood management of Rs. 15,000 crore with the Central Government but we have not got even a single paisa from that money, from that Rs. 15,000 crore for the State of Orissa. Then, in regard to the banking sector, we talk so much about the farmers. I was hearing the Treasury Bench Members speaking also. You might have waived the loans of the farmers. Waiving of the loan is a welcome measure. But why did that occasion come when you had to waive the loan of the farmers? It is because the farmers have become actually poor. In the last 60 years, we never had any programme directed at their improvement or for their economic upliftment. We just call the farmers heroes today. Everybody calls them heroes because they have given their life and blood for the country and they have helped in succeeding two Green Revolutions. Two Green Revolutions have become successful because of them. But today when the farmers clamour or when the farmers shout for their rights, you do not give it to them. They say we want agricultural loan from the banks at the rate of 3-4 per cent interest rate. The Farmers Federation of India of India has put this issue in front of the UPA Government but they gave no effect to that. Then, regarding fertilizer subsidy, it is seen that you give the fertiliser subsidy to the manufacturing units. But if that subsidy could be channellised to the farmers in some form or the other, then the farmers would benefit and he could get a remunerative price. We are demanding a Minimum Support Price of Rs. 1000 per quintal for rice. But we got Rs. 900. Why? Why is this step-motherly treatment to the paddy growing farmers, who comprise most of the States of South-Eastern India.
