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PANAJI
The State Government and Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) have come together to provide a free insurance cover worth Rs 2 lakhs for active fishermen. As per scheme notified by Department of Fisheries, an insurance cover will be provided to fishermen/crew prone to accidents at sea due to rough weather and other natural calamities.
Interesting part is the State Government and LIC will 50:50 share the annual premium on such insurance policies. An annual premium of Rs 330 will be payable for every insurance policy, wherein the government will contribute Rs 165 and LIC will pay the remaining Rs 165.
In an event of death of a fisherman due to any reason, LIC will pay a sum of Rs 2 lakhs to the nominee.
In order to be eligible for this scheme, an applicant should be fisherman by birth or profession and he and should be engaged in the occupation of fishing and related activities. The applicant should be aged between 18 years (completed) to 50 years.
The applicant seeking to be covered under the scheme should be resident of Goa for more than 15 years. In order to get covered by the scheme, the applicant should apply to the Directorate of Fisheries through the Fisheries Surveyor/Fisheries Officer/BDO of respective taluka in the prescribed application form along with all the documents.
The scheme is officially called ‘Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)’.
PANAJI: The State government has announced another scheme called ‘Craft & Gear’ under which subsidy will be given to fishermen on purchase/construction of New FRP/wooden canoe of below 26 feet to carry out fishing activities in inland waters of Goa.
To get subsidy, the fisherman will have to produce the original GST bill from the authorized dealer towards the purchase/construction of new canoe, gill net and its accessories and insulated fish and ice holding box.
But applicant for subsidy can’t be a fishing trawler owner. The applicant will get subsidy to the extent of 40% of the unit cost limited to Rs 40,000, if he or she is a general category person.
For SC, ST, women and their co-operative categories, the applicant will get subsidy to the extent of 60% of the unit cost limited to Rs 60,000.‘Craft & Gear’ scheme launched for fishermen
