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//Is the cookie crumbling for the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) with Gujarat exiting the scheme? The BJP-ruled State has cited the “burden on the State exchequer” due to heavy premiums charged by companies for the crop insurance plan. This comes as a big setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious scheme launched in 2016, as his home State becomes the second NDA-ruled State after Bihar to dump it after facing ire from farmers and farmer organisations.//
//“The cost of premium worked out to about ₹4,500 crore, which is exorbitant. Though PMFBY is a good scheme for farmers and Gujarat had been part of it, and would want to be so in future too, for the current year at least, we are not going with PMFBY, considering the excess burden on the State exchequer,” Rupani said at a media briefing on Monday. Chief Minister Rupani, instead, launched an alternative State-funded scheme — Mukhya Mantri Kisan Sahay Yojana — covering all farmers under crop insurance with zero premium.//
Gujarat, too, exits PM crop insurance scheme, citing premium burden
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