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Landless labour may be brought under insurance scheme
The inclusion of landless agriculture labour in the insurance scheme exclusively for farming community is under active consideration as Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao instructed departments concerned to come out with modalities immediately. Once landless labour are included, nearly 5 lakh labourers, including the workers registered under employment guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) would be able to a
​Hyderabad: The inclusion of landless agriculture labour in the insurance scheme exclusively for farming community is under active consideration as Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao instructed departments concerned to come out with modalities immediately. Once landless labour are included, nearly 5 lakh labourers, including the workers registered under employment guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) would be able to avail the benefits of the scheme directly.
Under the scheme, Rs 5 lakh will be insured in the name of a farmer. Irrespective of the reason due to which a farmer dies, including natural death, the insured amount will be paid to the nominee proposed by the insured farmer within 10 days of the claim. State Agriculture department has been entrusted with enrolling the farmers in the insurance scheme.
State Finance department in coordination with Panchayat Raj and Rural Development and Agriculture departments are busy compiling the data of the total number of landless agriculture labourers working in every district in the State. About 3 lakh workers are already registered as landless labour under the MGNREGS.
As the insurance scheme is applicable only to the age group between 18 and 59, officials said that government has already begun enumeration of the total number of beneficiaries from both farming community and landless labour.
State Finance department officials said that the insurance scheme will cover nearly 45 lakh farmers, out of 58 lakh farmers who got the benefit of Rythu Bandhu scheme, and another five lakh labour will be come under the scheme purview. The total expenditure to be incurred on the scheme by the State government will be around Rs 900 crore per annum.
