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“So far, a government will
only provide relief, but now
the scheme will compensate
for the losses.”
and 1.5% for rabi crops. An
immediate payment of 25%
of the due compensation
is entailed under the new
scheme. This money would
be directly transferred to the
bank accounts of the farmers.
Moreover, the scheme goes
beyond the conventional
methods of compensation
and crop cover, providing
compensation for loss of
even the seed plants besides
post-harvest damage. The
scheme is designed to
address a long-standing
demand of farmers, by
providing assistance to
localized calamities such as
unseasonal rains, hailstorms,
landslides and inundation.
Additionally, the scheme
does not rely on yield data,
rather it relies on remotesensing
data as well as even
drones for the assessment of
the crop damage. This avoids
delays in settling claims.
According to Urban
development and poverty
alleviation minister M
Venkaiah Naidu, “Because
of area-based assessments
-- in which the results of crop
cutting experiments over
a small area are used to
pay claims for a larger area
-- farm-level assessment is
not done at all. Once farmlevel
assessments begin,
claims for losses suffered in
localised calamities will get
paid.”
FEBRUARY 2016 | WWW.WISHESH.COM