Administrator
20 August 2025
Centre has developed and made operational the National Fisheries Digital Platform (NFDP) under PM-MKSSY on 11.09.2024.
Beneficiaries are fishermen across the country as the NFDP aims at formalization of the fisheries and aquaculture sector through creation of work-based digital identities and the database for all stakeholders in fisheries sector.
It also serves as 'one-stop' solution for access to institutional credit, strengthening of fisheries co-operatives, incentivizing aquiculture insurance, performance-based incentives, fisheries' traceability systems and training and capacity building.
The PM-MKSSY under its component 1-B provides for one-time incentive for purchase of aquaculture insurance by the farmers.
The one-time incentive for aquaculture insurance is provided at the rate of 40% of the premium paid with a ceiling up to ₹25,000 per hectare, limiting ₹1 lakh per farmer for farms upto 4 hectares Water Spread Area (WSA).
For the intensive aquaculture system including intensive systems like cage culture, RAS, bio-floc, and raceways etc. incentive for aquaculture insurance is provided at the rate of 40% of the premium paid with a ceiling up to ₹1 lakh per farmer for 1800 m3 for intensive aquaculture systems.
Further, the SC/ST and women beneficiaries get an additional 10% of incentive. As on date, 684 lead applications have been received on the NFDP including 58 from Uttar Pradesh and the same have been forwarded to the insurance companies on the portal.
Further, a total of 29 aquaculture farmers have applied for one-time incentive under PM-MKSSY on NFDP and 8 aquaculture farmers have availed the benefit of one-time incentive. The State and District-wise details alongwith the premium amount are furnished at Annexure-I. A total of 85 awareness camps has been conducted and the state-wise details are furnished at Annexure-II.
Annexure-I
|
Sl. No |
Year |
Name of the State |
District |
No. of Farmers Covered |
Covered Farm area (ha) |
Premium amount |
|
1 |
2024-25 & 2025-26 |
Andhra Pradesh |
West Godavari |
4 |
14.01 |
4,01,754.25 |
|
2 |
Krishna |
3 |
11.56 |
3,52,864.42 |
||
|
3 |
Eluru |
2 |
30.38 |
7,91,075.99 |
||
|
4 |
Nellore |
1 |
1.21 |
45,100.00 |
||
|
5 |
Guntur |
1 |
1.01 |
57,737.40 |
||
|
6 |
2024-25 & 2025-26 |
Tamil Nadu |
Nagapattinam |
5 |
7.24 |
2,19,253.00 |
|
7 |
Chennai |
2 |
7.28 |
8,20,892.00 |
||
|
8 |
Pudukottai |
3 |
7.21 |
2,93,794.00 |
||
|
9 |
Thanjavur |
2 |
5.42 |
2,09,077.00 |
||
|
10 |
2025-26 |
Odisha |
Bhadrak |
1 |
0.40 |
30,737.02 |
|
11 |
Kendrapara |
1 |
0.40 |
21,522.92 |
||
|
12 |
2025-26 |
Puducherry |
Puducherry |
1 |
3.89 |
4,77,116.00 |
|
13 |
2024-25 |
Telangana |
Hyderabad |
1 |
1.51 |
72,208.92 |
|
14 |
2025-26 |
Mizoram |
Mamit |
2 |
8.00 |
37,93,132.92 |
|
|
|
|
|
29 |
99.52 |
75,86,265.84 |
|
Sl. No |
Year |
Name of the State |
District |
No. of Farmers Covered |
Covered Farm area (ha) |
Premium amount |
OTI Amount |
|
1 |
2024-25 & 2025-26 |
Andhra Pradesh |
West Godavari |
2 |
3.96 |
89,780.66 |
37694.97 |
|
Krishna |
2 |
6.8 |
185735.71 |
74294.79 |
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|
2 |
2024-25 & 2025-26 |
Tamil Nadu |
Nagapattinam |
2 |
3.23 |
95596.00 |
38238.40 |
|
Thanjavur |
2 |
5.42 |
2,09,077.00 |
83630.80 |
|||
|
Total |
8 |
19.41 |
380,191.37 |
233858.96 |
|||
Annexure-II
State-wise details of the camps organized
|
Sl. No |
Name of State |
Number of Awareness Camps Organised |
|
1 |
Madhya Pradesh |
3 |
|
2 |
Kerala |
6 |
|
3 |
Karnataka |
4 |
|
4 |
Lakshadweep |
2 |
|
5 |
Telangana |
3 |
|
6 |
Bihar |
3 |
|
7 |
Nagaland |
1 |
|
8 |
Assam |
5 |
|
9 |
Haryana |
1 |
|
10 |
Uttar Pradesh |
6 |
|
11 |
Rajasthan |
4 |
|
12 |
Tamil Nadu |
8 |
|
13 |
Manipur |
10 |
|
14 |
Mizoram |
4 |
|
15 |
Meghalaya |
4 |
|
16 |
Arunachal Pradesh |
2 |
|
17 |
Sikkim |
4 |
|
18 |
Jammu & Kashmir |
3 |
|
19 |
Ladakh |
1 |
|
20 |
Odisha |
11 |
|
|
Total |
85 |
This information was given by Union Minister of State, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Shri George Kurian, in a written reply in Lok Sabha on 19th August, 2025.
