Punjab Government Should Announce Crop Insurance Scheme In April 13 Special Assembly Session – Sunil Jakhar

Apr10,2026 | Rajender Singh Jadon | Chandigarh

• BJP President Sunil Jakhar writes to the Chief Minister
• Says crop insurance scheme is necessary to compensate farmers’ losses

Sunil Jakhar, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Punjab unit, has stated that the Punjab government should announce the implementation of a crop insurance scheme for farmers during the special Vidhan Sabha session scheduled for April 13. He has also written a letter to Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann in this regard.

Jakhar said that although the Government of India has already implemented a crop insurance scheme, the Punjab government has not notified it.

He said that farmers in Punjab are currently facing severe natural calamities. Unseasonal rains and hailstorms have caused large-scale crop damage. Earlier, floods in 2023 and 2025 also led to massive destruction, and even now many farmers have not received compensation because no crop insurance scheme is in place in Punjab. Even today, farmers remain worried about how their losses due to such disasters will be compensated.

He reminded the Chief Minister that three years ago, it was announced that the Punjab government would introduce its own agricultural insurance scheme in place of the central government’s Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. However, despite three years passing and farmers suffering losses worth thousands of crores, the scheme is still awaited.

Jakhar said that since the Punjab government has called a special Assembly session on April 13, 2026, the Chief Minister should fulfill his promise and, without delay, announce Punjab’s own crop insurance scheme during this session so that farmers can be compensated during natural disasters.

He demanded that the government should immediately release the pending DA for employees and pensioners.