Jangaon Woman Publicly Humiliated By Officials Over Loan Repayment

Jangaon/Hyderabad, Jan 26 (Maxim News): Even as criticism continues over a bank deducting loan amount from Kalyana Lakshmi assistance from a tribal woman’s account in Sirikonda, Adilabad, another woman was humiliated by the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) and bank officials for not paying loans. 

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They put up a small fire in front of the woman’s house. Inviting the villagers to assemble before the house, they demanded that she immediately repay the loan amount.

Guguloth Lakshmi, a resident of Pedatanda village under Devaruppla mandal in the district had taken a loan through a self-help group under Telangana Grameena Bank. She was due to pay the Rs. 61,000 loan amount, according to reports. 

In a video that is going viral on social media platforms, officials are seen demanding repayment of the loan amount.  An official says that SERP field officers, bank officials, and others would visit the houses of those who had taken loans and make them pay the amount. This was being done as per the District Collector’s orders, he says. 

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He further says that 30 officials, including SER field officers and others, had arrived at Lakshmi’s house. He insists that Lakshmi should pay Rs. 51,000 before January 28 and Rs. 10,000 should be paid immediately.  In case she fails to pay, the SERP department officials would arrive at her house again and sit in front of her house and demand repayment, he says. 

The official also says that next they would go to Rajanna’s house and continue the same practice.  “We will not move until the loan is repaid,” the official says.  (Maxim News)

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