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Hyderabad
The State Government has provided security assistance worthy ₹3,301.90 crore to the families of 66,038 deceased farmers nether the Rythu Bima strategy during the past two-and-a-half years, Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao said connected Thursday.
Providing details of the Bima scheme, the Minister stated that from December 2023 till date, 66,038 husbandman families had benefited from the programme, with security claims amounting to ₹3,301.90 crore straight credited to the nominees’ slope accounts.
Out of this, ₹1,004.50 crore was paid to 20,090 families betwixt December 2023 and the extremity of that year, portion ₹1,293.05 crore was disbursed to 25,861 families during 2024.
For the fiscal twelvemonth 2025-26, a full of 42.16 lakh farmers person been enrolled nether the Rythu Bima scheme, helium said. The authorities has paid the full yearly premium of ₹1,359.56 crore to LIC, ensuring sum for each registered farmers. As a result, security assistance worthy ₹1,004.35 crore has been extended to 20,087 bereaved husbandman families during the year, providing important fiscal enactment successful hard times.
In a statement, helium dismissed the allegations by BRS leaders that the Rythu Bima strategy had been discontinued, and termed the run arsenic wholly mendacious and misleading.
The Minister accused the erstwhile authorities of suspending respective beneficial schemes, including cultivation mechanisation, ungraded wellness testing, and subsidised effect distribution. He besides alleged that the BRS authorities failed to merchandise the State’s stock for centrally sponsored schemes, depriving farmers of important benefits.
