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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Nov, 2018
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) Chairman
Subhash Chandra Khuntia on Friday urged the state-run insurance
companies to settle claims of farmers on crop loss at the earliest.
"Insurance
companies should set up call centres to answer queries of farmers
without delay and settle their claims soon," said Khuntia at the first
national review conference on Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY).
PMFBY,
launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February 2016, is the
state-sponsored crop insurance scheme, providing financial support to
millions of farmers suffering from crop losses across the country.
With
about 50 per cent of the country's workforce employed in agriculture
sector, there was a need to strengthen the redress mechanism of the crop
insurance scheme, Khuntia said.
"Insurance companies, state
governments and banks should appoint staff to create awareness about the
scheme among small and medium farmers to utilise its benefits," he
stressed.
Crop-cutting experiments to estimate the yield of crops
must be held by the insurance companies in a fair and transparent
manner, the former chief secretary of Karnataka added.
"Central
and state governments should jointly implement the scheme and alert the
farmers about the adverse weather conditions to reduce the risk," the
IRDAI chief said.
The insurance firms should appoint a person in
each district for farmers to reach the companies easily, southern
state's Agriculture Department secretary M. Maheshwar Rao pointed out.
The
two-day conference will be held in this tech hub till Saturday with
discussions on subjects like performance evaluation of PMFBY, role of
technology in current crop insurance and implementation issues and
challenges of crop insurance.
Representatives of state
governments, state-run banks, insurance firms, co-operative banks and
others were part of the conference.
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