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Kannan Kasturi

How Modi’s crop insurance scheme benefits private insurers far more than it does farmers

Insurers retained under 12% of the public money that went into earlier crop insurance programmes, the rest was given to farmers. Now they retain up to 44%.

Kannan Kasturi
· Feb 01, 2019 · 09:00 am
Modi’s ambitious crop insurance scheme is failing. Here are the hard facts

Rapid increase in enrolment was to be the hallmark of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. Instead, coverage is shrinking.

Kannan Kasturi
· Jan 31, 2019 · 09:30 am