Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has instructed the agricultural Department officers that the Rythu Beema life Insurance Scheme should be made applicable to all eligible farmers in the State. There should be no discrimination in the name of the rich and poor. The farmers, in general, should be registered for the Insurance he said.The CM said that until every farmer is registered for the scheme, applications for enrolling nominees, shall be continued to be received and the details of already received information shall be forwarded to the Government for further action.
The CM also said that errors are to be corrected as well as change the names for mutation wherever applicable should be taken up and completed on a war footing.“Name of all the farmers are to be registered for Rythu Beema insurance scheme. Irrespective of farmer possessing land at more than one place and irrespective of the number of Kathas, every farmer is eligible for only one policy. Without any discrimination whether rich or poor names of every farmer between the age group of 18 to 60 shall be registered.The farmer should be educated in such a way that he or she submits the nominee forms as early as possible.
On submission of details of the farmers who have already been provided with the nominee’s name, the government will release and pay the first instalment of Insurance premium pertaining to them” said CM. “New pattadar pass books have been issued after completion of land records purification and rectification. Rythu Bandhu cheques have also been issued. However, some farmers have not yet received the pass books and in some pass books few errors are to be corrected. Mutations are also pending in some cases. Instructions have already been issued earlier to complete all these expeditiously. However, the work has not been accomplished with the speed as expected. It requires to speed up the activity. To begin with, all the records are to be rectified manually” said the CM.
