A former minister and senior Congress MLA Karan Singh Dalal on Tuesday reiterated his allegations of kickbacks in Prime Minister Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY) while alleging siphoning off Rs 67 crore by the officials.
Claiming to have documents related to the crop insurance scheme, Dalal, who is also facing a probe for violation of privileges in assembly by raising this issue during the session, also accused the Haryana ministers of forcing senior officials to reverse their remarks about terms and conditions while assigning work of crop insurance to private companies.
"During the last season, banks had collected an amount of Rs 184 crore from the farmers on account of instalments of crop insurance whereas the amount received by companies was Rs 121 crore. The government has not been able to provide details of Rs 63 crore. As far as the crop insurance system is concerned, unlike previous years the government had made total yield as the basis of insurance rather than weather conditions. This needs to be probed," said Dalal.
"The missing entries of Rs 63 crore clearly indicate towards kickbacks allegedly being paid to government representatives. This supports my allegations," added Dalal.
Notably, this is for the second time that Dalal has accused the government of kickbacks and corruption. Last time he had accused state finance minister Capt Abhimanyu of taking an undue favour by under evaluation of sale proceeds of mining companies where he is directly or indirectly involved.
When contacted, agriculture minister Om Parkash Dhankar categorically termed Dalal as "most dis-credible" person while dismissing the allegations. "His credibility is under suspicion. He is already facing probe in the assembly as well. As far as the crop insurance amount is concerned, it was a statistical error between bankers and insurance companies. The government is nowhere in the picture. To my knowledge, the error too has been rectified," said Dhankar.
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