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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Private insurance companies benefitted the most from PM Fasal Bima Yojana: Report -Raju Sajwan

Private insurance companies benefitted the most from PM Fasal Bima Yojana: Report -Raju Sajwan

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published Published on Aug 13, 2021   modified Modified on Aug 14, 2021

-Down to Earth

Farmers yet to be paid Rs 5,724 crore for claims made in 5 years since scheme launch

The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (crop insurance scheme) may have benefitted some farmers but insurance companies surely made the most of it.

In the five years since the scheme was launched, these companies received Rs 1,26,521 crore in premium payments and paid Rs 87,320 crore to farmers in loss claims — a cumulative savings of approximately 31 per cent.

The department of agriculture and farmers welfare furnished the figures in its report to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture's report

Around 72.5 million farmers have benefitted from the scheme between April 2016 and December 14, 2020, according to the report. Farmers submitted 269.9 million crop insurance applications for 235.4 million hectares of crops, the dpartment stated.

Farmers are only required to deposit 1.5 per cent of the entire premium (in the Kharif season) and 2 per cent in the Rabi season. The remainder of the premium is deposited jointly by the federal and state governments.

During the course of five years, the farmers deposited Rs 19,913 crore of the total premium of Rs 1,26,521 crore.

The farmers claimed Rs 92,954 crore for crop losses in the period but were paid only Rs 87,320 crores, the report stated. That is, farmers were not paid Rs 5,724 crore in claims till December 2020.

The question is, was it the government insurance firms or private companies that benefitted more?

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Down to Earth, 13 August, 2021, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/governance/private-insurance-companies-benefitted-the-most-from-pm-fasal-bima-yojana-report-78445?fbclid=IwAR2xw9Lux-lAlKAjjaFBJjweST0yz6TJy09E29DjyYSj5mxt8HkRoTSDSWo


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