While talking about the Crop Insurance Scheme launched recently, the Prime Minister took a dig at his detractors, saying “even those who never stop attacking Modi and try various means to project him (Modi) as anti-farmer have not dared to criticise this programme.”
At the ‘Kisan Kalyan Mela’, he said the earlier Crop Insurance Schemes were such that farmers did not have trust and only 20 percent of them took adavantage of the policies.
Targeting at least 50 percent coverage of farmers under this scheme, Modi said the new programme addresses all the apprehensions of the farmers, has no cap on claims and has a cap of 2 percent on premium, unlike the premium of up to 14 percent in earlier schemes.
He said his government’s effort has been to create trust in the insurance scheme by addressing all their apprehensions.