Wayanad(Kerala), Oct 7 (PTI) Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to waive the loans of the Chooralmala-Mundakkai landslide survivors, party sources said on Tuesday.
In a statement, the party said that Priyanka has again written to the PM informing him about the plight of the landslide survivors who have lost their homes and livelihoods.
She said that the assets of farmers, small and medium enterprises and other service providers were damaged or completely destroyed in the natural disaster and a large part of the agricultural land became uncultivable.
The Congress MP said that earlier the National Disaster Management Authority could have instructed banks to waive the loans in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the NDMA Act, 2005.
"However, the