PMFBY: No insurance firms bid for 3 clusters in Maharashtra
Farmers in as several as eight districts in Maharashtra may well not be capable to insure their crops underneath the PM Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) scheme in the forthcoming kharif year as no insurance plan company came ahead to bid for a few clusters in the State.
The final working day for bidding for twelve clusters – every single cluster has concerning one and 4 districts – was final Wednesday (May 20), and there were no takers for a few clusters, and two many others had just one bidder every single, in accordance to sources in the know of items.
These districts are Aurangabad, Beed, Bhandara, Gondia, Jalna, Kolhapur, Palghar and Raigarh.
Whilst Beed is a cluster with one district, Jalna, Gondia and Kolhapur kind one cluster. The other 4 districts are portion of another cluster which similarly failed to appeal to bids. In addition to, two newly-formed one district clusters — Latur and Osmanabad — have bids from only one crop insurance plan company, the Agricultural Insurance policies Company of India (AIC).
“One can comprehend why insurance plan firms are reluctant to present crop insurance plan protect in clusters these as Beed, Latur and Osmanabad (which ordinarily have some of the highest assert fees), but it is surprising to see there are no takers for the Cluster No. six comprising Palghar, Raigarh, Aurangabad and Bhandara, which has relatively small quality fees and lesser amount of statements,” the sources said.
Whilst Bajaj Alliance Insurance policies Co Ltd and Iffko-Tokio Insurance policies Cp Ltf bid for 5 clusters every single, AIC, Reliance Insurance policies Co Ltd and HDFC Ergo bid for a few clusters every single. Bharti Axa Common Insurance policies sought to get the job done in two clusters.
Bad participation
Similarly, the other crop insurance plan scheme – Temperature Primarily based Crop Insurance policies Plan – much too failed to excite the insurance plan corporations, prompting the State agriculture department to lengthen the deadline till May 28 citing ‘poor participation’.
The flagship crop insurance plan scheme released by the Narendra Modi-led NDA government was in bit of issues in Maharashtra due to the fact the past kharif year, notably.
Heavy rains and floods in the course of the fag conclusion of the past monsoon year resulted in huge crop decline in the State, primarily in Marathwada area.
As a result, insurance plan corporations providing danger protect underneath PMFBY scheme had to shell out one hundred twenty for each cent of total quality gathered in the State.
All through the rabi seasonn that has just long gone by, insurance plan corporations did not come ahead to present PMFBY protect to farmers.
In accordance to the sources, the government is in two minds: regardless of whether to repeat bidding process only for those a few clusters or for all clusters in the State.
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