Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Oct 24: Even as the farmers loan waiver scheme is getting ready to be implemented, chief minister (CM), H D Kumaraswamy, is seriously thinking about waiving education loans.

The CM revealed his mind at a programme on the subject of 'achievements and challenges of the coalition government' organized by Press Club in association with Bengaluru Reporters Club on Tuesday on the occasion of completion of the JD(S)-Congress combine completing five months of rule in Karnataka.

"Children of a large number of families have availed educational loans. As they have failed to get any employment, the families are facing problems in repaying the loans. These cases have been coming before me regularly either during the times I meet the people during my tours or Janata Darshan programmes. Therefore, the scheme of educational loan waiver is being thought of, and officials have already been directed to pool details," he explained.

Kumaraswamy also opined that as far as providing facilities to school children is concerned, including the education loan waiver, there should not be any link to the caste and religion of the students. A student should be considered a student and not on the basis of the community to which he belongs, he felt.