On the eve of the social security month, the life Insurance Corporation (lIC) of India has undertaken various programmes to make its social security plan, meant for the poor and weaker sections, popular and successful.
The lIC intends more people to get included and derive benefit of the plan at very low cost since persons belonging to BPl category, weaker section, and even daily labourers are covered under this plan, informed NC Bhatta, the senior divisional manager of Sambalpur division.
P&GS unit and lIC organised a meet at Rourkela involving NGOs and a meeting with the DFOs (Kl) of different forest divisions. “While NGOs could help poor people get insurance cover, DFOs could help in the kendu leaf (Kl) pluckers to avail the scheme in which a person has to pay only Rs 100 in a year towards the premium,” said Bhatt. Persons covered under this scheme can get Rs 30,000 as death benefit, Rs 75, 000 as accidental death benefit and Rs 37,500 as partial disability benefit, he added. At the same time, the children of the policy holders reading from Class IX to XII and ITI can get Rs 600 as scholarship half yearly.
In Sambalpur division, 2.88 lakh persons have been covered under the social security scheme and Rs 55. 05 lakh has been paid to 118 families towards death and other claims. The children of the policy holders have also got Rs 1.09 crores as scholarship during the current financial year. Among others, senior officers Tapas Ranjan Sahoo and divisional manager of the P&GS unit also narrated the benefit of the scheme.