The Central authorities on Thursday agreed to the Maharashtra authorities’s demand of extending the closing date for enrolment of farmers from July 15 to July 23 for Kharif season 2021 underneath Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana.
Maharashtra authorities had requested to increase the deadline of the PM’s Crop Insurance coverage scheme PMFBY until July 23. The final date for enrolment was July 15
In response to the letter by the Maharashtra authorities, Sunil Kumar, Secretary of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare stated : “l am directed to confer with an aforementioned letter acquired from State Authorities of Maharashtra on the topic talked about above whereby State Authorities has requested to increase the closing date for enrolment of farmers underneath PMFBY for Kharif 2021 season from July 15 to July 23 owing to challenges confronted because of COVID19 pandemic and enclosed the consent of aforesaid all six involved implementing Normal Insurance coverage Corporations.”
“The matter has been examined by this Division and the request of the state authorities of Maharashtra for extension of the closing date for enrolment of farmers from July 15, 2021, to July 23 2021 has been agreed to as a particular case owing to COVID-19 Pandemic within the curiosity of the farming neighborhood of the state,” Kumar said
In keeping with the Maharashtra authorities, 46 lakh farmers have utilized for the scheme until date however lots of them are but to finish formalities.
(Solely the headline and movie of this report might have been reworked by the Enterprise Normal workers; the remainder of the content material is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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