Simran Sandhu is a farmer in Haryana who alternately grows paddy and wheat in kharif and rabi seasons. Like thousands others, being a loanee farmer, he got enrolled to the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and his premium got deducted automatically by July 10.
Paddy crop on around 34 per cent of his land got damaged in the latest bout of rains. But Sandhu has little hope of getting any compensation from the insurance company. According to the government’s revised PMFBY guidelines for kharif 2019, inundation of paddy crops is not one of the calamities for which insurance
Paddy crop on around 34 per cent of his land got damaged in the latest bout of rains. But Sandhu has little hope of getting any compensation from the insurance company. According to the government’s revised PMFBY guidelines for kharif 2019, inundation of paddy crops is not one of the calamities for which insurance

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