patna the bihar government has decided to request the centre for waiving bank loans of the victims of 1989 bhagalpur riots in which about 1000 persons were killed official sources said on tuesday state institutional finance secretary a ibhrahmi said that a meeting in this regard was convened here yesterday by the departmental minister dr ashok kumar and it was unanimously decided to send a proposal to the union finance ministry at the earliestthe meeting was also attended by bhagalpur district magistrate dr gore lal yadav finance commissioner m n prasad additional finance commissioner k c mishra special secretary home krishna choudhry and general manager of the state bank of india k sitaramanthe decision to send a proposal to the centre was taken in response to a question raised by cpim mp from bhagalpur subod roy in the last parliament session demanding waiving of loansibrahimi said different nationalised banks had distributed a loan of rs 116 crore among the 843 riot victims as part of the district administrations drive to rehabilitate themthe loan amount with interest has now gone up to rs 23 crore as none of the borrowers returned the money thinking it was a government grantthe department secretary said it was decided at the meeting that bhagalpur district magistrate would send the list of borrowers to the state government within a fortnight after which the government would send the proposal to the centre