<h1>India Forms Task Force to Include Farmers with Private Loans in Waiver Scheme; Recommends Expanded Kisan Credit Card Coverage.</h1> The Government of India established a Task Force led by the former NABARD Chairman to address the exclusion of farmers with loans from private money lenders from the loan waiver scheme. The Task Force recommended policy measures to alleviate farmer indebtedness, including expanding the Kisan Credit Card Scheme to cover small and marginal farmers, tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and oral lessees. It also suggested legislation for loans from private money lenders and a district-level grievance redressal mechanism. The Interest Subvention Scheme, offering reduced interest rates on short-term crop loans, was extended, with incremental subventions provided to prompt payee farmers.