Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao The attack on the Center has intensified by targeting the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). He said the current policy governing crop insurance in the country is “unscientific and bogus”.
Intervening during the Question Hour in the Vidhan Sabha on Friday, the Chief Minister said that there are several loopholes in the existing policy which need to be rectified to ensure that 100 per cent benefits reach the farmers at the grassroots level. They said Telangana The government will give suggestions to the Center in the next session after discussion in the assembly.
KCR said, “Farmers need justice, but PM Fasal Yojana is not giving them.”
PMFBY alternative for states: Niranjan
He found lapses in the guidelines and norms for compensation for crop losses due to natural calamities.
Both KCR and Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said that the Center has made PMFBY ‘optional’ for the states and it is not mandatory. Telangana had decided to implement the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat, two and a half years after the Center launched the scheme across the country. Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao had earlier termed Ayushman Bharat as a ‘nonsense’ scheme.
Niranjan Reddy informed the House that the state government had paid premium for PMFBY in 2018-19 and 2019-20 and several claims had been settled. But, the Center reviewed the scheme last year and made it optional.
He said that the state and the Center together have paid a premium of Rs 989 crore, but the farmers have received a premium of Rs 817 crore. The remaining Rs 172 crore went to insurance companies, not farmers.
“Even progressive agricultural states like Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal and Andhra have opted out of PMFBY,” he said.
KCR termed the Centre’s system of compensation for crop and other damages due to natural calamities as wrong and said that it has many shortcomings.
Intervening during the Question Hour in the Vidhan Sabha on Friday, the Chief Minister said that there are several loopholes in the existing policy which need to be rectified to ensure that 100 per cent benefits reach the farmers at the grassroots level. They said Telangana The government will give suggestions to the Center in the next session after discussion in the assembly.
KCR said, “Farmers need justice, but PM Fasal Yojana is not giving them.”
PMFBY alternative for states: Niranjan
He found lapses in the guidelines and norms for compensation for crop losses due to natural calamities.
Both KCR and Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said that the Center has made PMFBY ‘optional’ for the states and it is not mandatory. Telangana had decided to implement the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat, two and a half years after the Center launched the scheme across the country. Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao had earlier termed Ayushman Bharat as a ‘nonsense’ scheme.
Niranjan Reddy informed the House that the state government had paid premium for PMFBY in 2018-19 and 2019-20 and several claims had been settled. But, the Center reviewed the scheme last year and made it optional.
He said that the state and the Center together have paid a premium of Rs 989 crore, but the farmers have received a premium of Rs 817 crore. The remaining Rs 172 crore went to insurance companies, not farmers.
“Even progressive agricultural states like Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal and Andhra have opted out of PMFBY,” he said.
KCR termed the Centre’s system of compensation for crop and other damages due to natural calamities as wrong and said that it has many shortcomings.
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