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PM Modi's Mann ki Baat: Want to bring 50 per cent farmers under crop insurance

| | Jan 31, 2016, at 05:14 pm
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IBNS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that he plans to bring 50 percent farmers under the farmers loan in the next couple of years.
Addresssing the nation through 'Maan ki Baat', the monthly public broadcast, he said, "The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana was not devised to get us applauded but to help the farmers of India."
 
"Help me reach out to the farmers, who lose out a lot due to natural calamity. Entire labour of theirs are lost and i want the farmers to get insured."
 
"Spread the message to the farmers. We have the lowest premium rates for them," Modi said.  
 

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