Summary:
Shiv Sena has launched a fresh salvo against the lapses in the PM crop insurance scheme implemented in Maharashtra. Thackeray questioned the categorisation of 90 lakh farmers in the state as ineligible for the Prime Minister's Crop Insurance Scheme and impugned the parameters used to declare them so. ''How can 90 lakh Maharashtra farmers be ineligible for PM crop insurance,'' asked Thackeray. "After 90 lakh farmers were categorised as ineligible, around Rs 2,000 crore, which was to be disbursed to farmers, is still lying with the insurance companies," Thackeray said. Shiv Sena chief insisted that farmers must be given crop insurance compensation..