Surguja district Collector R Prasanna on Tuesday said the farm workers would be provided insurance cover in the district under Atal Khetihar Majdur Bima Yojana and directed the concerned officials to implement the scheme.
He said the insurance scheme will benefit to those workers who owns two and half acres of farm land or those who work in the land of others as well as their children. The scheme will also benefit those who were under below poverty line. The farm labourers will have to pay no premium, Prasanna told the officials in a meeting here.
The collector said farm worker aged between 18 and 59 will benefit from the scheme only when they were not covered under any other central or state insurance programme. The annual premium to be paid per worker is two hundred rupees and the panchayat and rural development department will pay half of the amount to the life insurance corporation while remaining half would be borne by the central government.
According to the scheme, if an insured person dies of accident, his or her nominee will receive Rs 75000. In case of normal death the nominee will get Rs 30,000. If the insured person loses a hand or leg or incase of other disability, his or her nominee will get Rs 37500, he said. Besides two children of the insured will be provided Rs 100 each scholarship per month from class nine to twelve and if they study ITI, he said.