Vivek Ramekar stands with his family outside their sealed home in Khodgaon village of Amravati
Amravati : Amravati: A landless sharecropper of Khodgaon village in drought-hit Anjangaon Surji taluka is living on the street with his family after a housing finance company sealed his modest home for a loan default of Rs 3.5lakh. Ramekar had taken a home loan of Rs 2.57 lakh in 2018 with a monthly instalment of Rs 4,000. Khodgaon villagers came out in support of the distressed family and crowdfunded Rs 20,000 and requested loan officials to allow more time to pay up. Should we repay the loan or educate our children,” asked Ramekar’s 64-year-old mother Asha Duryodhan Ramekar.
The daily-wage earner is already facing starvation due to drought. You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Nagpur | Silver Rate in Nagpur | Bank Holidays in Nagpur | Public Holidays in Nagpur | Petrol Price in Nagpur | Diesel Price in Nagpur | CNG Price in Nagpur | LPG Price in Nagpur Stay updated with the latest Nagpur news.
“The finance firm claimed Rs 3.94 lakh, including interest, is outstanding and the seal won’t be removed till the amount is paid,” he said. Talking to TOI, collection manager of the finance company, Chetan Ghurde, and the company’s advocate, Manish Sharma, said action was taken as per the order of the chief judicial magistrate, Amravati. The family should get justice,” said MLA Lawate, who directed the district collector, Ashish Yerekar, to probe into the loan recovery method and interest charged by the finance company.
The family claimed to have paid more than Rs 3lakh so far. However, company officials sealed the house and evicted the labourer family, alleged sarpanch Yogesh Nemade, deputy sarpanch Atul Kharode and other villagers. They could not afford their daughter’s English medium education and moved her to a zilla parishad school. “Our rations have dried up and we are struggling to have two square meals. Daryapur MLA Gajanan Lawate lashed out at the loan officials, saying rendering a poor family homeless in a drought-hit taluka is condemnable. “This is a blot on humanity. Download the TOI App.
After the forcible eviction, Vivek Duryodhan Ramekar, 43, and his family, including his elderly mother, wife and children are pavement dwellers since Wednesday night.
We will die by suicide if we don’t get justice,” he told the district administration officials. “The drought has wrecked our jobs. We are daily wage earners.