New Delhi, July 23 -- The Centre has informed that agricultural loans worth over Rs.28.5 lakh crore are outstanding but ruled out any plans for a waiver, minister of state in the ministry of finance Pankaj Chaudhary said in response to a question in Lok Sabha on Monday.

Responding to Parliamentary questions by Lok Sabha MPs Supriya Sule (Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar, Maharashtra), Hanuman Beniwal (Rashtriya Loktantrik Party, Rajasthan) and others, the Ministry of Finance informed Monday that outstanding agricultural loans stood at Rs.28,50,779.43 crore as of March 31, 2025. These are due from 1,762.96 lakh accounts.

"No proposal to waive off the outstanding agricultural loans, is under consideration with Union Govern...