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Does 5.5 crore 'new' farmers join the crop insurance scheme every year? - ravish Kumar

Does 5.5 crore 'new' farmers join the crop insurance scheme every year? - ravish Kumar


The addition of a new number to a number will mean that the new number is added to the old number. When the Agriculture Minister says that there are 5.5 crore new farmers added every year under the Prime Minister's crop insurance scheme, it seems that the total number increased to 11 crores in the second year as compared to the first year. However, it is not like that.


Every year 5.5 to 6.10 crore farmers join this scheme and the number remains the same every year. Farmers have to get insurance every year. The number of farmers getting insurance is equal every year. So you cannot say that this year new farmers got insurance.


The second government claims that 29 crore farmers were insured in five years. This data is also misleading. Suppose a person gets insured every year. Can it be added by adding five times that five people get insured in five years? The number of farmer families in India is believed to be 14.5 crores. Accordingly, the number of farmers getting insurance every year is only 5 to 6 crores. Every year, so many farmers provide insurance and not new farmers. This will happen if five crore farmers get insured in 2016 and in the next year five crore new farmers are added, then in 2017, the number should be 11 crores. But this does not happen.


This is the juggling of statistics. What is seen in front is not always the same. Similarly, the government says that in five years an amount of 90,000 crores was given as an insurance claim. But the insurance companies gave this money. Not the government. The government should tell how much the central government and the state government gave as a premium? Does the Central Government only pay premiums under the Prime Minister's Insurance Scheme?


Second, the government should tell how many farmers claim the claim and how many of them get the claim? How many do you get on time?


Farmers are agitating against agricultural laws. In protest against this, the government has thrown itself into the propaganda war. Some new statistics are introduced every day. There is a similar illusion in those figures. They are not complete even if they seem right. He has to work very hard to check.


No matter how much the government claims on crop insurance, the land is not actually the same. If it were, states like Bihar and Gujarat would not have separated from this scheme. It is not easy to understand and capture these data. But why does the government have to do this juggling?


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