What is National Agricultural Insurance Scheme? How does it benefit the Farmers during natural calamities etc? And what are the authorities under the Scheme from whom such scheme can be claim by the farmers?
N.K.Assumi (Advocate) 01 June 2010
What is National Agricultural Insurance Scheme? How does it benefit the Farmers during natural calamities etc? And what are the authorities under the Scheme from whom such scheme can be claim by the farmers?
Adv. G. A. Gagdani (ADVOCATE AND LEGAL CONSULTANT) 01 June 2010
| Title : | National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) |
| Type : | Central Sector Scheme |
| Objectives : | (i) To provide insurance coverage and financial support to the farmers in the event of failure of any of the notified crop as a result of natural calamities, pests and diseases. (ii) To encourage the farmers to adopt progressive farming practices, high value in-puts and higher technology in agriculture. (iii) To help stabilize farm incomes, particularly in disaster years. |
| Salient features : | - Scheme is available to all farmers – loanee and non-loanee both – irrespective of the size of their holdings. - Compulsory for loanee farmers and optional for non-loanee farmers. - Sum insured may extend to the value of threshold yield of the area insured. - Coverage of all food crops (cereals, millets and pulses), oilseeds and annual commercial/ horticultural crops in respect of which past yield data is available for adequate number of years. - Among the annual commercial/horticultural crops, seven crops namely, sugarcane, potato, chillies, ginger, onion and turmeric are presently been covered. - Premium rates are 3.5% for bajra, and oilseeds and 2.5% for other Kharif crops, 1.5% for wheat, and 2% for other rabi crops. In case the rates worked out on the basis of actuarial data are less than the prescribed rate, the lower rate will be applicable. - In case of annual commercial/horticultural crops, actuarial rates are charged. - Small and marginal farmers are provided subsidy of 50% of premium charged from them. The subsidy will be phased out over a period of 5 years on sunset basis. - To implement NAIS at lower unit of insurance i.e. Gram Panchayat it has been decided to adopt new technique i.e. Small Area Crop Estimation Approach devised by IASRI in one selected district of each implementing States/UTs from Rabi 1999-2000 season on an experimental basis. - It is proposed to set up a separate agency for implementation of NAIS. |
| Pattern of Assistance : | Expenses on account of indemnity claims, Corpus Fund, A & O Expenses, publicity, premium subsidy to small and marginal farmers etc. are shared between Central and State Governments on 50 : 50 basis in the initially. |
| Eligibility : | Central Government is the policy making authority for the scheme. Presently, General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC) is the Implementing Agency. The activities relating to the implementation of NAIS are carried out through GIC, rural financial institutions, State Governments/UT Administration and farmers. |
| Procedure to apply : | At the beginning of each crop season, the State Govt./UT Administration in consultation with GIC notifies the crops and defines the areas which will be covered under the scheme during the season. The monthly crop-wise and area-wise details of crop insurance with premium are remitted to the nodal points and nodal point on receipt of such inputs from various loan disbursing points, scrutinizes and transmits them GIC on monthly basis as per cut-off dates fixed. The non-loanee farmer who desires to join the scheme would fill up proposal form of NAIS and submits the same alongwith premium in the village branch of commercial bank or Regional Rural Bank or PACS of Cooperative Bank. It is the responsibility of the branch/PACS to verify the particulars of sum insured, the maximum limit etc., while accepting the proposal. The particulars then, are consolidated and sent to the respective nodal points for onward transmission to GIC State Level Crop Insurance Cell before the dates specified in the notification of the Government. |
| Persons to be contacted : |
The Joint Secretary Credit Division, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation, Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi. |
| Date of Start/Duration | The scheme is being implemented from Rabi 1999-2000. |
| Implementation status : | Presently, the scheme is being implemented in 18 States and 2 Union Territories as indicated below: (i) Andhra Pradesh (ii) Assam (iii) Bihar (iv) Goa (v) Gujarat (vi) Himachal Pradesh (vii) Jharkhan (viii) Karnataka (ix) Kerala (x) Maharashtra (xi) Madhya Pradesh (xii) Meghalaya (xiii) Orissa (xiv) Tamil Nadu (xv)Uttar Pradesh (xvi) Chattisgarh (xvii) West Bengal (xviii) Sikkim (xix) A & N Islands (xx) Pondicherry. |
N.K.Assumi (Advocate) 01 June 2010
Thank you very much for your kind responds. What really amazed me as per your last implementation status: is that the scheme which I am told started way back from 1999-2000 and by 2004 a total of credit to farmers amounts to US$ 24.2 billion and by now it might have increased by ten fold or more and a State Like Nagaland and Manipur have been left out as if there is no Natural calamities in these two States. Look at what is happening with the Telengana Lawyers fighting in the National Human rights Commission New delhi, over this fund allocation to their District. Its really unfortunate that In India some States have been deprived of such benovelent schemes to the farmers, and this is despite the facts that even Nagaland had declared a few years back as Year of the Farmers.
Adv. G. A. Gagdani (ADVOCATE AND LEGAL CONSULTANT) 01 June 2010
i do agree with that
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