Proceedings of the SLAC meeting to monitor, supervise and advise

Proceedings of the State Level Advisory Committee meeting to monitor, supervise
and advise in matters relating to adequacy and quality of crop cutting experiments
on Crop Insurance held under the Chairmanship of Commissioner for Agriculture
on 03-02-2014 at 10-30 A.M.
Members Present :- List enclosed.
The Commissioner for Agriculture and Chairman of the Committee welcomed the
members and initiated the discussions. The discussions were held as per the agenda and
the following decisions were taken.
National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS)
1) Settlement of claims during Kharif, Rabi & Summer 2012-13.
The Chairman asked Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd., (AIC) about
the status of claims settlement for the year 2012-13. The regional Manager, AIC
informed that they have already settled the claims of Kharif 2012 to 183375 farmers
amounting to Rs.12944.04 lakhs and for Rabi 2012-13 to 65868 farmers amounting to
Rs.2852.67 lakhs.
2) Status and Settlement of claims of Kharif 2013 and Rabi & Summer 2013-14.
The Regional Manager, Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd., (AIC)
informed that during Kharif 2013, 2.36 lakh farmers have been participated by paying
Rs. 1487.14 lakhs as Premium.
The Joint Director(CIC), Department of Economics and Statistics (DES) informed
the committee that the Department has received the yield data of 3 crops viz., Black
Gram, Green Gram and Sesamum of Kharif 2013 and remaining crops yield data is yet to
be received from the Districts. The Chairman directed DES to provide Area sown data
and Yield data of Kharif 2013 crops by 31-3-2014. He further suggested AIC to give
request for provisional funds to the Department of Agriculture for early settlement and
also directed AIC to settle the claims by 30-6-2014.
The Regional Manager, Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd., (AIC)
informed that during Rabi & Summer 2013-14 under NCIP-MNAIS, tentatively 15219
farmers have been participated by paying Rs. 63.89 lakhs as Premium.
The Chairman directed DES to provide Grama Panchayath and hobliwise Area
sown data and Yield data of Rabi & Summer 2013-14 crops by 31-8-2014. He further
directed AIC to settle the claims by 30-10-2014.
(Action: AIC, DES and Department of Agriculture)
Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) under National Crop
Insurance Programme(NCIP)
3) Settlement of claims during Kharif 2013.
The details on progress made in claim calculation by different insurance
companies under WBCIS pertaining to Kharif 2013 is as below;
-2Provisional (Rs. in Lakhs)
Name of the Insurance
Companies
AIC
HDFC-ERGO GIC
ICICI Lombard GIC
Cholamandalam MS GIC
IFFCO-TOKIO GIC
TATA AIG GIC
Total
No. of
Farmers
Enrolled
108706
38118
56509
1
489
5867
209690
Gross
Premium
(Lakhs)
No. of farmers
benefitted
Claims
calculated
(Lakhs)
2202.74
863.80
656.00
0.02
12.50
183.43
3918.49
93812
37045
43000
1
273
2020.93
956.74
290.00
0.01
1.19
174131
3268.87
The Chairman directed all the insurance Companies to settle the claims with in a
week time.
(Action: All the Insurance Companies)
4) Progress made under WBCIS during Rabi 2013-14 by Insurance Companies.
The Insurance Companies yet to receive declarations from the nodal banks. The
details of the tentative progress given by Insurance Companies under WBCIS pertaining
to Rabi 2013-14 are as below;
(Rs. in Lakhs)
Name of the Insurance
Companies
AIC
HDFC-ERGO GIC
ICICI Lombard GIC
Cholamandalam MS GIC
IFFCO-TOKIO GIC
Total
No. of Farmers
Enrolled
1031
24
500
1
74
1630
Farmers
premium
11.98
0.52
20.00
0.02
2.77
35.29
Gross Premium
22.30
0.96
40.00
0.03
4.00
67.29
The Chairman directed all the insurance Companies to settle the claims 45 days
after completion of cover period.
(Action: All the Insurance Companies )
5) Review of Weather Parameters.
The committee decided to continue the weather parameters like Deficit rains,
unseasonal/excess rains, Rainfall distribution, Frost, Temparate and Relative Humidity
which were notified for assessing loss during last Kharif season.
6) Discussion on crops and areas to be notified during Kharif 2014 & Districts to
be allotted to various insurance companies.
The Committee decided to notify annual Commercial and Horticulture crops under
WBCIS during kharif 2014, viz., Cotton (Irrigated), Cotton (Rainfed), Onion (irrigated),
Onion (Rainfed), Chilli (Irrigated), Chilli (Rainfed), Potato (Irrigated), Potato (Rainfed),
Grapes, Banana and Pomogranate in 463 hoblis of 29 Districts.
-3The Committee directed the Director, KSNDMC to provide the list of reference
weather stations and only one set backup weather stations list for 465 hoblis before
SLCCCI.
During Kharif 2014, 7 insurance companies viz., AIC, ICICI Lombard GIC Ltd.,
HDFC ERGO GIC Ltd., Cholamandalam MS GIC Ltd., IFFCO TOKIO GIC Ltd TATA
AIG GIC Ltd., Reliance GIC and Future Ganerali GIC are interested to participate and
Committee directed all the insurance companies to submit crop wise hobliwise Term
Sheets of last year notified 19 districts by 20-02-2014 and for remainig districts by
03-03-2014.
Committee directed the Director, KSNDMC to evaluate the term sheets before
SLCCCI meeting.
(Action: All Insurance Companies, KSNDMC)
7) Fixing of Sum Insured(S.I) for crops to be notified as per NCIP Guidelines
The Committee decided to revise the Sum Insured for notified crops and to follow
the State level Average of Cost of Cutivation of these crops. The Committee directed
Horticulture Department to provide the Cost of Cutivation of notified crops at the earliest.
(Action: Department of Horticulture, All the Insurance Companies)
8) Establishment of Telemetric Rainguage stations(TRG's) at Grama Panchayath
level and bringing the unit of insurance to Grama Panchayath level.
The Director, KSNDMC informed the committee that TRG's at Grama Panchayath
level have been installed in 5 districts only. Hence the Committee decided to implement
WBCIS at hobli level until completion of installation of TRG's at GP level in all the
districts.
(Action: KSNDMC)
9) Continuation of Loyalty Discount oriented WBCIS & Focussed programme on
WBCIS during Kharif 2014
Committee to decide continue Loyalty Discount oriented WBCIS & Focussed
programme on WBCIS during Kharif 2014 under NCIP.
(Action: AIC)
10) Fixing cut-off date for enrollment of loanee and non-loanee farmers during
Kharif 2014
Committee decided to fix of cut-off date as per NCIP guidelines.
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Modified National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (MNAIS)under NCIP
11) Settlement of claims during Kharif, Rabi & Summer 2012-13.
The regional Manager, Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd., (AIC)
informed that they have already settled the claims of Kharif, Rabi & Summer to 51537
farmers amounting to Rs.5008.31 lakhs.
12) Status and Settlement of claims of Kharif 2013 and Rabi & Summer 2013-14.
under MNAIS.
AIC has informed that 162390 farmers have been participated by paying
Rs. 2747.29 lakhs as Premium during Kharif 2013.
The Chairman directed DES to provide Area sown data and Yield data of Kharif
2013 crops by 31-3-2014 and also directed AIC to settle the claims by 30-6-2014.
The Regional Manager, Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd., (AIC)
informed that during Rabi & Summer 2013-14 under NCIP-MNAIS, tentatively 15219
farmers have been participated by paying Rs. 63.89 lakhs as Premium.
The Chairman directed DES to provide Grama Panchayath and hobliwise Area
sown data and Yield data of Rabi & Summer 2013-14 crops by 31-8-2014. He further
directed AIC to settle the claims by 31-9-2014.
(Action: AIC, DES and Department of Agriculture)
13) Notifying the crops and areas for assessing the loss on individual basis in case of
localised calamities during Kharif 2014.
Committee decided to select all the 30 Districts for loss assessment on individual
basis in case of localised calamities during Kharif 2014.
14) Crops and Districts to be notified under the scheme and Districts to be allotted
to the various insurance companies during Kharif 2014.
The Committee decided to notify Food & Oil seed crops under MNAIS. It is
decided to notify major crops at GP level and other crops at Hobli level.
The Joint Director, DES informed the Committee that they will provide details of
crops and areas to be covered at GP / Hobli level separately under MNAIS during Kharif
2014 by 20-02-2014. The Chairman directed interested Insurance Companies to submit
district wise crop wise Premium rates by 03-03-2014 and the district allocation will be
decided based on premium comparision in SLCCCI meeting.
(Action: All the Insurance Companies, Department of Agriculture, DES)
-515) Fixing cut-off date for enrollment of loanee and non-loanee farmers under
MNAIS during Kharif 2014.
The Committee decided to fix the cut-off date for enrollment of loanee and nonloanee farmers as 30-06-2014 as per NCIP guidelines.
16) Any other subject with the permission of the Chair.
1.The Chairman expressed his displeasure about Horticulture Department as Senior
officials did not attend the meeting.
2. The Chairman asked the Insurance Companies to takeup awareness and Capacity
building of farmers regarding the Crop Insurance Schemes.
Meeting was concluded with vote of thanks.
Sd/Commissioner for Agriculture
and Chairman of the Committee.
No.CIC/TA-1/1/2014.
Commissionerate of Agriculture,
Seshadri Road, Bangalore-1,
Dated:12-2-2013.
C.f.w.c. to all the members for kind information and necessary action
for Commissioner for Agriculture
To,
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
The Commissioner for Agriculture.
The Director of Agriculture.
The Director, Department of Economics & Statistics.
The Director, Department of Horticulture.
The Regional Manager, Agriculture Insurance Company of India Limited, Bangalore.
The Joint Director (Regional), National Sample Survey Organisation, Bangalore.
Special invitees:
7) Director of Research, UAS, Bangalore, Dharwad, Raichur & UHS Bagalkot.
8) The Director, Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre, Bangalore.
9) The Director, Indian Meteorological Department, Bangalore.
10) Chief Engineer, Water Research Development Organisation, Bangalore.
11) The Convener, SLBC, Syndicate Bank, Bangalore.
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12) The Regional Manager, Karnataka, ICICI Lombard, General Insurance Company
Ltd., Bangalore.
13) The Business Head, IFFCO - Tokio, General Insurance Company Ltd., Bagalore.
14) Manager, HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Ltd., Bangalore.
15) Manager, Choalamandalam MS General Insurance Company Ltd., Chennai.
16) The Professor of Agrometeorology, College of Agriculture, UAS, GKVK,
Bangalore.
17) Dr.H.Venkatesh, Principal Scientist, Agrometeorology, Regional Agricultural
Research Station, Bijapur.
18) Dr. Mahadeva Reddy, Principal Scientist, Agrometeorology, UAS, Raichur.
19) The Professor and Head, Department of Horticulture / Crop Physiology /
Entomology / Plant Pathology / Agronomy, UAS, Bangalore, Dharwad, Raichur &
UHS Bagalkot.
Members Present List:
Sl.
Sri / Smt
No.
1. The Commissioner for Agriculture
2.
The Director of Agriculture.
3.
The Director (Rep. by Joint Director, CIS), Department of
Economics & Statistics, Bangalore.
4.
The Director (Rep.by AHO), Department of Horticulture,
Bangalore.
5.
Director, Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring
Centre, Bangalore.
The Director, Indian Meteorological Department, Bangalore.
6.
7.
D.D. Dange, Regional Manager, Agriculture Insurance
Company of India Limited, Bangalore.
8.
The Convener, SLBC, (Rep.) Syndicate Bank, Bangalore.
9.
Satya Prasad, AVP, ICICI Lombard, GIC Ltd., Bangalore.
10.
Vijay Vernekar, IFFCO - Tokio, GIC Ltd., Bangalore.
11.
Siju Jacob, HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Ltd.,
Bangalore.
12.
Deepak Mishra) Cholamandalam MS General Insurance
Company Ltd., Bangalore.
In Chair
13.
Viresh Aradhya, M.V.,
Company Ltd., Bangalore.
Reliance
General
Insurance
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14.
Madhava Prabhu, D., Future Genarali General Insurance
Company Ltd., Bangalore.
15.
Dr. M.B.Rajegowda, Professor of Agrometeorology,
College of agriculture, UAS, GKVK, Bangalore.
16.
Dr. H.Venkatesh, Principal Scientist, Agrometeorology,
Regional Agricultural Research Station, Bijapur.
17.
Dr. Mahadeva Reddy, Principal Scientist, Agrometeorology,
College of agriculture, UAS, Raichur.
18.
Dr.Subbaih, Additional Director of Agriculture (Crop
Development & Planning), Bangalore.
19.
Swarna Gowri, Joint Director, DES, Bangalore.
20.
Pasha, Deputy Director, DES, Bangalore.
21.
P. Leelavathi, Asst. Director. DES, Bangalore.
22.
B. Prabhakar, Asst. Manager, AIC, Bangalore.
23.
A.V. Prabhulingappa, SO, KSNDMC, Bangalore.
24.
PutteGowda, SO, KSNDMC, Bangalore.
25.
Dr. Keerthishree, Project Scientist, KSNDMC, Bangalore.
26.
S. Jagadeesh, Project Scientist, KSNDMC, Bangalore.
27.
S.S.M. Gavaskar, Project Scientist, KSNDMC, Bangalore.
28.
29.
S.Emilyprabha, Project Scientist, KSNDMC, Bangalore.
Abhinand, R.K, PS, KSNDMC, Bangalore.
30.
Balachandran, HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company
Ltd., Bangalore.
31.
M.N.Manjula, ADA, Crop Insurance Cell, Department of
Agriculture.
32.
Lakshmi.G, AO, Crop Insurance Cell, Department of
Agriculture.

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