HC reserves order in crop insurance PIL plea
The Hindu
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The Telangana High Court on Friday reserved orders in a PIL petition over failure of State government to enforce crop insurance scheme and seeking compensation to farmers who suffered crop loss due to rains in October 2020.
While hearing contentions of the parties, a bench of Acting Chief Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao and Justice T. Vinod Kumar said it was not willing to accept State government’s contention that there was no crop loss in year 2020. The petitioners sought to declare failure of the State government to implement crop insurance scheme as illegal and arbitrary and a direction to pay compensation to farmers over crop loss due to rains.
Advocate General B.S. Prasad told the court that there was no crop loss as such in the State during that period due to rains. When the bench wanted to know why did the State government write to the Centre seeking assistance and relief for crop loss, the AG replied that was based only on preliminary estate.
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