The State Government has released additional insurance claim amount for Kharif-2015 crops which were destroyed due to natural calamity. This will benefit 1.25 lakh farmers. An amount of Rs 244 crore will be deposited in their bank accounts. Principal Secretary Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development Rajesh Rajora has informed that the biggest insurance claim of Indian history are being distributed. After approval of this additional insurance claim amount, a total of 22.70 lakh farmers will receive Rs 4660 crore as insurance claim amount. Rajora informed that deliberations were made again to provide insurance claim to the remaining farmers which were left out due to some shortcomings on the directives of the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. These special efforts have benefited the remaining 1.25 lakh farmers under the National Crop Insurance Scheme.
Besides, Rajora informed that under the additional insurance claim, maximum claim amount of Rs 76.67 crore for 35,550 farmers of Khandwa district has been released. Similarly, Rs 55.39 crore for 26,129 farmers of Betul district, Rs 16.57 crore for 13,369 farmers of Rajgarh district, Rs 5.36 crore for 5379 farmers of Chhatarpur district, Rs 16.56 crore for 7,000 farmers of Harda district, Rs 16.11 crore for 9650 farmers of Sagar district, Rs 11.54 crore for 2944 farmers of Ujjain district and Rs 3.85 crore for 1198 farmers of Vidisha have been released. Rajora informed that under the benefited farmers, 1.15 lakh farmers of soybean crop, 3263 farmers of corn crops, 2419 farmers of paddy, 1698 farmers of groundnuts and 850 farmers of red gram are included. He further said that an amount of Rs 4660 crore is being distributed to 22.70 lakh farmers at an average of Rs 21,500 per farmer under the National Crop Insurance Scheme. He informed that calculation of insurance amount is done on the basis of insured amount, loan obtained and damage to the crop. He also informed that the less insurance amount is being paid to the farmers where there is less percentage of damage. Besides, the calculation of the insurance sum is done on the basis of crop reaping average of five years and threshold production.