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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | CAG spots huge gaps in PM's Fasal Bima Yojana, other crop insurance schemes -Sanjeeb Mukherjee

CAG spots huge gaps in PM's Fasal Bima Yojana, other crop insurance schemes -Sanjeeb Mukherjee

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published Published on Jul 24, 2017   modified Modified on Jul 24, 2017
-Business Standard

Says over Rs 32,000-crore released to insurers from 2011-16 without verification of beneficiaries

The crop insurance continues to be a problematic area despite the Centre launching the much-touted Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) from Kharif 2016 replacing two old schemes with no or marginal increase in coverage of non-loanee farmers, lower sum insured as compared to scale of finance and delayed claim settlement which defeated the very purpose of insurance, two reports on the subject by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) showed.

The CSE report said that insurance companies raked in a huge profit of around Rs 10,000 crore as on April 2017 due to low claim reported in relation to the premium charged.

“The gross direct premium of General Insurance Companies grew by 32 per cent from Rs 96,376 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 1.27 lakh crore in 2016-17, nearly half of which came from crop insurance,” the CSE report said.

The CAG report was tabled in Parliament today, while the CSE analysis was released to the public.

The CAG report examined the crop insurance schemes – National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (NAIS), Modified NAIS and Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) implemented during 2011-12 through 2015-16, while the CSE study analysed the new PMFBY, which replaced all these schemed from Kharif 2016 onwards.

Astonishingly, many fundamental problems and issues remained almost the same in both the old crop insurance schemes and also the new PMFBY.

In fact, the CSE study showed that till April 2017, insurance companies collected a gross premium of Rs 15,891.1 crore while claims reported against it was just around Rs 5,962.1 crore, ensuring a profit of almost Rs 10,000 crore for insurance firms.

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Business Standard, 21 July, 2017, http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/cag-spots-huge-gaps-in-pm-s-fasal-bima-yojana-other-crop-insurance-schemes-117072101499_1.html


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