Name Change in Fasal Bima and Kisan Credit Card in Jharkhand
Every other record on this website is attached to a person. These two are attached to a piece of land. The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana operational guidelines require a farmer to "essentially submit Aadhar Number and declaration about the crop sown/ crops intended to be sown" together with "necessary documentary evidence of land records prevailing in the State (Records of Right (RoR), Land possession Certificate (LPC) etc.)", and a Kisan Credit Card is a bank facility taken against that same holding. So a name problem here is almost always a land record problem wearing a name's clothes, and in Jharkhand that means a khatiyan or a jamabandi written long ago in a spelling the family no longer uses. Work out which of the four records is the odd one out before you spend a single day on this.
Find out which of four records disagrees, and correct that one. A crop insurance enrolment and a Kisan Credit Card both sit on top of the same four papers: the land record, the Aadhaar, the bank account and the enrolment or loan record itself. The scheme guidelines make the first two compulsory in plain words. They require the land evidence quoted above, and they state that "Aadhaar has been made mandatory for availing Crop insurance from Kharif 2017 season onwards". A Kisan Credit Card runs through a bank account, and the Reserve Bank's own circular on the scheme describes "A one-time documentation at the first time of availment of KCC loan and thereafter simple declaration (about crops grown/proposed) by farmer from the second year onwards". Read that sentence slowly, because it explains everything. Your name is checked properly once, at the very beginning, and after that the bank asks you about crops, not about who you are. A spelling that went in wrongly in year one is simply carried forward, quietly, until a claim or a review touches it. Two things are genuinely on your side here, and almost nobody tells farmers about them. First, the guidelines say that "State Government and concerned IC will be responsible for any incorrect entry/errors/omissions etc during digitisation", so an error made while your papers were being typed into a system is not yours to carry. Second, the same guidelines set out a correction step with a seven day window, which means corrections are part of the scheme's own design rather than a favour. Speed is everything, and the season cut-offs are hard.
In Fasal Bima and KCC the Land Is the Identifier, Not Your Name
A ration card answers the question who are you. A crop insurance enrolment answers a different question: which field, sown with what, farmed by whom. That changes where a wrong name comes from and therefore where it has to be corrected.
| The record | What it contributes, and how a name goes wrong in it |
|---|---|
| 1. The land record, the khatiyan or jamabandi | The guidelines require "necessary documentary evidence of land records prevailing in the State (Records of Right (RoR), Land possession Certificate (LPC) etc.)". In Jharkhand these entries are often decades old, written by hand, in a spelling nobody in the family uses today. This is the commonest source of the whole problem |
| 2. The Aadhaar | "Aadhaar has been made mandatory for availing Crop insurance from Kharif 2017 season onwards." So the modern spelling arrives here, and it meets an old spelling coming from the land record. Two correct records, one mismatch |
| 3. The bank account | Both the premium and any claim move through it, and a Kisan Credit Card is a bank facility. The account name usually came from whatever paper the branch was shown on the day it was opened, which may be a third version again |
| 4. The enrolment or loan record itself | Somebody typed your particulars into a system. The guidelines require that documents are "properly scrutinised, verified and uploaded" in legible form, which tells you that this typing step is a recognised point of failure |
| Who may hold the land | The scheme is not only for owners. "All farmers including sharecroppers and tenant farmers growing the notified crops in the notified areas are eligible for coverage", with contract or agreement papers permitted by the State in their case. So a tenant's name problem is a tenancy paper problem |
| What this means for you | Stop asking how to change the name in the scheme. Ask which of these four papers disagrees with the other three. That single question turns a vague complaint into one specific correction |
Fasal Bima and Kisan Credit Card Are Two Different Things Joined at the Land
Families treat these as one subject because the same field, the same bank branch and often the same clerk are involved in both. The rules behind them are not the same, and the difference decides who you write to.
| Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana | Kisan Credit Card |
|---|---|
| An insurance on a notified crop in a notified area. It pays when a crop fails | A credit facility from a bank. It lends you money against the farming you do |
| Run under guidelines of the Government of India, with the State Government and an insurance company doing the work on the ground | Run by banks under a Reserve Bank of India circular. Your counterparty is a branch manager, which changes everything about how you approach it |
| Enrolment needs the Aadhaar, the crop declaration and the land record evidence, as the guidelines set out | Eligible are "Farmers - individual/joint borrowers who are owner cultivators; Tenant farmers, oral lessees & share croppers; Self Help Groups (SHGs) or Joint Liability Groups (JLGs) of farmers" |
| The guidelines state that the scheme "is optional for all farmers including farmers who have been sanctioned short-term Seasonal Agricultural Operations (SAO) loans/Kisan Credit Card (KCC)" | Which is the formal link between the two. Having a KCC does not force you into the insurance, and a farmer who wishes to opt out does so by a declaration to the lending branch |
| A wrong name here shows up at claim time, when the money is meant to reach an account | A wrong name here shows up at review or renewal, or when a subsidy or a benefit has to be matched to you |
| The Press Information Bureau records that a flexible limit of Rs 10,000 to Rs 50,000 may be provided as a Flexi KCC based on the land holding and the crops grown | And that short term crop loans up to Rs 3 lakh are covered under the interest subvention and prompt repayment incentive arrangements of the Government of India |
| Where to write: the enrolment channel you used, the insurance company for the season, and the State agriculture office | Where to write: your branch, in writing, and keep the acknowledgement. A branch is a place you can actually walk into, which makes this the easier of the two |
The Fasal Bima Clause That Says a Typing Error Is Not the Farmer's Fault
Farmers arrive at an office assuming a wrong entry is their own mistake and that they are asking for a favour. On this subject the published guidelines say something quite different, and it is worth carrying with you.
What the clause does not do
It does not fix a name that was wrong on your own papers to begin with. If your Aadhaar and your land record genuinely disagree, that is a real mismatch and somebody has to correct one of them. The clause is about the typing step, not about your documents.
What it does do
It removes the argument that you should have checked. Where the papers you submitted were correct and the record shows something else, the guidelines have already named who answers for it. Say so politely and in writing.
Why you must keep your own copies
Because the only way to show that the paper was right and the entry was wrong is to produce the paper. Photocopy everything you hand over, every season, and keep the receipt or acknowledgement with it.
The other clause worth quoting
The guidelines also require that documents submitted are "properly scrutinised, verified and uploaded on NCIP in legible form". Scrutinised and verified are duties, not courtesies, and they sit with whoever did your enrolment.
How to use both without a fight
Write one short application. Say what your papers show, say what the record shows, attach copies of both, and ask for the entry to be corrected. Quote the paragraph, do not shout it. Officials respond better to a farmer who knows the rule than to one who is angry.
Keep the tone, keep the paper
Ask for a receipt for the application itself. A dated acknowledgement is worth more later than any conversation, because the people who read your file next season were not present for it.
The Seven Day Correction Window and the Fasal Bima Season Cut-Off Dates
Most records on this website can be corrected whenever you get round to it. Crop insurance cannot, because it is tied to a sowing season, and a season does not wait.
| What the guidelines set out | What you should do about it |
|---|---|
| A correction step with a seven day window, running from the date of intimation for updating a paid application, and a matching seven days from the date of submission for the insurer's side | Treat every such notice as urgent the day it arrives. Corrections are built into the scheme's own timetable, which is good news, but a week is not long in a village and post is slow |
| Premium collection runs up to 5th July for the Kharif season | So anything you intend to fix for Kharif has to be settled before that, not during it. Start in the dry months, not in the sowing rush |
| And up to 15th December for the Rabi season | The same logic for the winter crop. These two dates are the real deadlines on this page, and they are the ones to write on a wall |
| Aadhaar has been mandatory for crop insurance from the Kharif 2017 season onwards | So an Aadhaar that cannot be matched is not a minor irregularity. It stops the enrolment, and the fix belongs at an enrolment centre, not at the insurer |
| The enrolment channel is required to scrutinise, verify and upload your documents in legible form | Ask for the printed acknowledgement at the counter and read it there. The cheapest moment to catch a wrong entry is before you walk out of the door |
| What we could not verify | How a particular season's correction step is actually operated in Jharkhand, and by whom. So we print the windows the guidelines describe and we do not promise you a counter that will honour them. Raise it fast and in writing either way |
Why Your Bank Checks the KCC Name Only Once and Never Again
People ask us why nobody noticed a wrong name for six or seven years. The Reserve Bank's own circular on the scheme answers that, and once you have read it the silence makes sense.
| What the circular says | What follows from it |
|---|---|
| "A one-time documentation at the first time of availment of KCC loan and thereafter simple declaration (about crops grown/proposed) by farmer from the second year onwards" | This is the whole explanation. Your identity papers are examined once, at the start. From the second year the bank is asking about crops, not about who you are. A spelling that went in wrongly in year one is carried forward untouched |
| "Banks may determine the validity period of KCC and its periodic review. The review may result in continuation of the facility, enhancement of limit or cancellation" | So there is a moment when the file is looked at again. The review is when an old wrong name finally surfaces, and it surfaces at the worst possible time, when a limit or a continuation is being decided |
| Eligible borrowers include "Tenant farmers, oral lessees & share croppers" and groups of such farmers | An oral lessee has no written tenancy at all. So the name and the standing rest on whatever the bank recorded at the start, which makes that first entry even more important to get right |
| Self Help Groups and Joint Liability Groups of farmers are also eligible | Where a group is involved, one member's mismatch can hold up the group's paperwork. Check the whole group's names together rather than one at a time |
| The card was revised under a scheme launched in December 2020, aimed at providing timely credit through a single window | Single window is the useful phrase. One branch, one relationship, one file. That is why writing to your own branch is nearly always the fastest route on the KCC side |
| What we did not find | We looked for a prescribed name correction form or fee for a KCC and did not find one stated. So we print none. It is a bank record, and banks handle a name correction through their own KYC process at the branch |
How to Correct a Name in Fasal Bima and Kisan Credit Card Records in Jharkhand
Put all four papers on one table
The land record, the Aadhaar, the bank passbook and whatever the scheme gave you. Write down the four versions of the name. Nothing else on this list matters until you have done this.
Decide which one is the odd one out
Not which is easiest to change. Whichever disagrees with the other three, and with the rest of the household's papers, is the one that is wrong. Getting this backwards costs a season.
Separate the typing error from the real mismatch
If your papers agree with each other and only the scheme record differs, that is a digitisation error and the guidelines place responsibility for it on the State Government and the insurer. Say so.
Fix the Aadhaar if the Aadhaar is the odd one
It is mandatory for crop insurance from the Kharif 2017 season onwards, so it has to be right. Our Aadhaar name change page covers the route, the charge per attempt and the limits.
Fix the bank account if that is the odd one
A branch is a place you can walk into and a request you can hand over against a receipt. This is usually the quickest of the four to put right, and it matters because the money moves through it.
Treat the land record as the serious one
If the khatiyan or jamabandi is the record that is wrong, stop and take advice. Our jamabandi and khatiyan page explains why, and why an advocate is worth the money there.
Write to the scheme side in plain language
One page. What your papers show, what the record shows, copies of both attached, and a request to correct the entry. Quote paragraph 2.3 once, politely, and ask for a dated acknowledgement.
Write to the branch for the KCC side
Separately and in writing, because the two are different institutions. The bank handles it as a KYC correction, and the review or renewal moment is when it will otherwise bite you.
Act inside the seven days if you are given a window
The guidelines set out a correction step with a seven day window. Do not post it on day six from a village. Hand it over, or send it the same week and keep proof of sending.
Work backwards from the season dates
Premium collection runs up to 5th July for Kharif and 15th December for Rabi. Anything you want settled for a season has to be finished before those dates, not during that week.
Check the whole household in the same round
Father's name, wife's name, the names on a group loan. One trip that settles four people beats four trips, and our one notice for several certificates page explains when a family can be handled together.
Keep every receipt for years, not months
Photocopies of what you submitted, the counter acknowledgement, the letters. A claim is assessed by people who were not there when you enrolled, and paper is the only thing that speaks for you then.
Central Gazette Process for a Name From Jharkhand, and Where It Fits a Farm Record
No district in Jharkhand has a gazette counter, so a genuine file goes from Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Deoghar or anywhere else in the state to the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, and the notice publishes in Part IV of the Gazette of India. As reported in July 2025 the Finance Department stopped personal name change notifications from the Jharkhand Government Press with immediate effect, so there is no state alternative to fall back on.
The Eight Steps of a Name File Sent From Jharkhand
Settle the final name first
Letter by letter, with the spacing you want, and then use exactly that everywhere, Aadhaar included. A corrigendum after publication is a second fee and a second wait.
Pick the category, then its proforma
A genuine change of name is change of Name Adult or Major. A wrongly typed spelling is the public notice for a wrongly written name. Twelve categories exist and only one is yours.
Type the proforma in duplicate
Two originals with two witnesses giving signature, full name, address and mobile number on both copies. A change of name is signed in the old name; a public notice is signed in your own name.
Fill the employment field if it is a change of name
The adult proforma asks for the post of the applicant and the office or company name. A student or a homemaker should still complete it rather than leaving it blank, because a blank field brings the file back.
Publish and keep the original paper
One of the daily local leading newspapers, carrying both names in full, the father or husband name and the residential address. The whole original paper goes in the file, not a cutting.
Pay only through BharatKosh
The Non Tax Receipt Portal and nowhere else since October 2018. Select the Department of Publication by name, read the amount the portal shows on the day, pay in your own name and print the e-receipt.
Check every date, then post it yourself
Nothing in the file older than one year. Personally or by post or courier only, never through an agent or advocate. Photocopy everything first, because nothing sent in comes back.
Read the notice, then update in the right order
Check every word the day it publishes, download the e-Gazette copy, and then work through the Aadhaar and the bank account first, because the scheme records read both. Anything touching the land record is a separate job and belongs with an advocate.
The Five Papers in the File, and What Is Checked in Each
| The paper | What is checked in it, clause by clause |
|---|---|
| 1. The proforma, in duplicate | That it is the right category format; the existing full name exactly as your documents carry it; the new full name exactly as settled; the father or husband name; the full address with pin code; the post and office or company name where it is a change of name; the signature in the right name for the category; two witnesses complete with signature, full name, address and mobile number |
| 2. The affidavit or undertaking | The same names and address as the proforma, word for word, with wording matching the category. On Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper as our safe default |
| 3. The original newspaper | The original paper, not a cutting; the paper name and date of publication visible; both names carried; the father or husband name and residential address; dated within the last year |
| 4. Photographs, identity proof and any category paper | Two self attested passport photographs; self attested identity and address proof matching the proforma address; both witnesses proofs; and, in a public notice file, the attested photocopy of the connected document carrying the error |
| 5. The CD, its certificate and the BharatKosh receipt | MS Word, without the witness portion, with the name typed in place of the signature; the certificate that the hard copy and the soft copy are the same; the forwarding letter to the Controller of Publication with a telephone number and email; the e-receipt |
The posting detail is on the sending the file to Delhi page, the change of name wording on the proforma format page and the public notice wording on the public notice proforma page, the charge by category on the fee and undertaking page, the reasons files come back on the rejection reasons page, and the download on the download page.
What a Fasal Bima and Kisan Credit Card Name Correction Costs in Jharkhand
| Item | Cost | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Comparing the four papers at your own table | Nothing, and it decides the whole job. The land record, the Aadhaar, the bank passbook and the scheme paper. Whichever disagrees with the other three is the one to correct | Half an hour |
| A written application about a wrong entry in the scheme record | Nothing but the paper and the postage. The guidelines place responsibility for a digitisation error on the State Government and the insurance company, so this is a request made on a proper footing | Send it the week you find it |
| Correcting the bank account name | The bank's own process at the branch where the account is. We print no charge because banks differ and we verified none. Ask at the counter and get the request acknowledged | Set by the branch |
| Correcting the Aadhaar, where that is the record that is wrong | Aadhaar charges a fee per attempt with no refund and limits how often a name may be updated. It is mandatory for crop insurance from the Kharif 2017 season onwards, so it has to be right | Set by the enrolment centre |
| Correcting the land record itself | The expensive one, and the one to take seriously. A khatiyan or jamabandi correction is a revenue process with its own costs, and our land record page explains why an advocate is usually worth it | Months, not days |
| A name correction inside the insurance scheme itself, or in the KCC | We print no fee, because we verified none. We found no prescribed correction form or charge stated for either, and a KCC name is handled at the branch as an ordinary bank record. Be careful of anybody quoting a fixed amount for this | Not stated in the sources we read |
| Government printing charge, only in a genuine change of a person's own name | The guidelines print Rs 1,100 for an adult change of name and Rs 1,400 for a public notice, for FY 2016 to 2017, each with the caveat that the charge varies each financial year and from case to case. What BharatKosh shows on the payment screen the day you pay is the figure that counts | Part IV publishes weekly, so allow several weeks from posting |
| Our charge | Quoted on your papers before you pay anything, and confirmed in writing. We print no service price on any page of this site | |
Myths About Fasal Bima and Kisan Credit Card Name Corrections
| What farmers are told | What is actually so |
|---|---|
| The name has to be corrected in the scheme, so there must be a scheme form for it | The scheme reads four other records. Correct whichever of those is wrong, and we print no form number for either scheme because we found none stated in the sources we read |
| A wrong entry in the record is the farmer's own carelessness | Not where your papers were right. The guidelines state that "State Government and concerned IC will be responsible for any incorrect entry/errors/omissions etc during digitisation." Carry that sentence with you |
| A gazette notification will correct the land record and the scheme along with it | It will not. A gazette is a published statement about a name. It does not rewrite a khatiyan or a jamabandi, and those are what the scheme asks for as documentary evidence |
| There is plenty of time, it can be done next season | Premium collection runs up to 5th July for Kharif and 15th December for Rabi, and a correction window in the guidelines runs for seven days. A missed season is a missed year |
| Only landowners can take crop insurance, so a tenant has no standing | Wrong. "All farmers including sharecroppers and tenant farmers growing the notified crops in the notified areas are eligible for coverage", with contract or agreement papers permitted by the State in their case |
| Only landowners can get a Kisan Credit Card | Also wrong. The Reserve Bank circular lists "Tenant farmers, oral lessees & share croppers" and groups of such farmers among those eligible |
| If the bank never objected, the name must be fine | The bank does "A one-time documentation at the first time of availment" and then asks only about crops from the second year. Silence is not approval, it is simply nobody looking |
| Having a Kisan Credit Card means the insurance is compulsory | The guidelines say the scheme "is optional for all farmers including farmers who have been sanctioned short-term Seasonal Agricultural Operations (SAO) loans/Kisan Credit Card (KCC)", with an opt-out by declaration to the lending branch |
| Change the Aadhaar to match the old khatiyan spelling | Only if the Aadhaar is the one that is wrong. If the Aadhaar carries the spelling your family actually uses, do not damage it to match a hundred year old entry. Correct the entry that is out of step with everything else |
| The agent in the market who offers to get it done knows a shortcut | There is no shortcut through a land record. Ask exactly which of the four papers he intends to change and by what process. Anybody who cannot answer that clearly is not worth paying |
Key Terms in a Fasal Bima and Kisan Credit Card Name Correction
| Term | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana | The crop insurance scheme. It covers a notified crop in a notified area, and it is run through State Governments and insurance companies under published operational guidelines |
| Kisan Credit Card | A bank credit facility for farming, run by banks under a Reserve Bank of India circular. Your counterparty is a branch, not a scheme office |
| Record of Right, or RoR | The land record the guidelines name as documentary evidence. In Jharkhand this is the world of the khatiyan and the jamabandi, and it is where most old spellings live |
| Land Possession Certificate | Also named in the guidelines as acceptable land evidence. Which papers a State accepts is set by that State, so ask locally rather than trusting a list on a website |
| Notified crop and notified area | The crop and the area the State has notified for a season. If your crop or your village is not notified, the cover does not apply, whatever your name says |
| Loanee and non-loanee farmer | Whether you came into the scheme through a crop loan or enrolled yourself. It decides which counter handles you, and the guidelines say the scheme is optional either way |
| Sharecropper and tenant farmer | Expressly eligible under the guidelines, with contract or agreement papers permitted by the State. Not having the land in your own name does not shut you out |
| Oral lessee | A farmer cultivating under an unwritten arrangement, named as eligible for a Kisan Credit Card. With no written tenancy, what the bank recorded at the start matters even more |
| Joint Liability Group | A group of farmers, including tenants and sharecroppers, borrowing together. One member's name mismatch can hold up the whole group's file |
| Digitisation | The step where somebody types your papers into a system. The guidelines place responsibility for errors at this step on the State Government and the insurance company |
| One-time documentation | The Reserve Bank's phrase for the identity check done at the first availment of a KCC, after which only a crop declaration is taken. The reason a wrong name survives for years |
| Periodic review | The moment the bank looks at the file again, which may continue, enhance or cancel the facility. The moment an old mismatch finally surfaces |
Fasal Bima and KCC Name Help Across Jharkhand
This is a subject where the offices that matter are all local to you: the block agriculture office, the bank branch, the Aadhaar enrolment centre and, where the land record itself is involved, the circle office. What we do sits before those visits and saves most of them. We read the land paper against the Aadhaar, the bank passbook and the scheme paper, tell you which single record is out of step with the rest, tell you whether what you are looking at is a genuine mismatch or a typing error made during digitisation, and draft the application or the branch letter so that it says the right thing the first time. Where the khatiyan itself is the problem, we will tell you plainly that this needs an advocate and not a documentation desk. All of it on your scans over WhatsApp, for every district.
District pages are linked from the services page.
Send the khatiyan and the Aadhaar
Send four things if you have them: the land paper you used, whether that is a khatiyan, a jamabandi extract or a possession certificate, the Aadhaar, the bank passbook page that carries the name, and whatever receipt, card or message the scheme gave you. If you farm on a tenancy or a sharecropping arrangement, send whatever paper covers that as well. Our first reply tells you which single record is out of step with the other three, whether what you have is a real mismatch or a typing error made when your papers were digitised, which office the request goes to, and what the letter should say. If the land record itself is the problem we will tell you so at once and tell you to take an advocate, because that is not a documentation job. And if you are anywhere near a season cut-off, say so in your first message, because that changes the order of everything. Details on the contact page.
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Fasal Bima and Kisan Credit Card Name Change: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my name in my Fasal Bima record?
Is there an official form and fee for a name correction in these schemes?
A wrong name was typed into the record. Is that my fault?
How long do I have to get this corrected?
Why did the bank never tell me the name on my KCC was wrong?
I farm on a tenancy, not my own land. Can I even be in these schemes?
The old spelling is on the khatiyan. Do I change the khatiyan or the Aadhaar?
Do I need a gazette notification for this?
I have a Kisan Credit Card. Does that mean the crop insurance is compulsory?
Will a claim be refused only because of a spelling?
Somebody in the market says he can get it corrected quickly for a fee.
How much of this can you actually do for us?
Official Sources on Fasal Bima and the Kisan Credit Card
- Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima YojanaThe scheme's own portal, and the place to look for the current season's notification, the enrolment channel and the insurance company for your area.
- Operational Guidelines, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, revampedFor the eligibility of sharecroppers and tenant farmers, the Aadhaar and land record requirements, the optional nature of the scheme for KCC holders, the responsibility for digitisation errors, the correction window and the season cut-off dates.
- Master Circular on the Kisan Credit Card Scheme, Reserve Bank of IndiaFor who is eligible including tenant farmers, oral lessees and share croppers, for the one-time documentation rule, and for the validity period and periodic review of the card.
- Reserve Bank of IndiaThe regulator behind the card scheme, and the place its circulars are published and updated.
- Department of Agriculture and Farmers WelfareThe department behind the crop insurance scheme and the wider farm programmes that read the same land records.
- Press Information BureauFor the Government's own published account of the Kisan Credit Card, its eligible categories, the flexible limit and the interest subvention arrangements.
- Jharbhoomi, land records of JharkhandFor the khatiyan and jamabandi entries that the crop insurance guidelines ask for as documentary evidence of land records.
- Government of JharkhandFor the State agriculture department, the block offices and the circle offices that handle both the scheme side and the land record side in this State.
- Unique Identification Authority of IndiaFor the Aadhaar name update route, the charge per attempt and the limits, since Aadhaar is mandatory for crop insurance from the Kharif 2017 season onwards.
- Department of PublicationFor the twelve gazette categories and their proformas, in the separate case where somebody's own name is genuinely being changed.
- BharatKosh, the Non Tax Receipt PortalThe only route for the Government printing charge since October 2018, and the only place the amount of the day can be read.
A Fasal Bima and KCC Name Problem in Eight Lines
The short version
- Here the land is the identifier, not your name.
- Four records must agree: land, Aadhaar, bank, enrolment.
- Find the one that disagrees with the other three.
- A digitisation error is the State and the insurer's responsibility.
- The guidelines set out a correction window of seven days.
- Premium cut-offs are 5th July for Kharif, 15th December for Rabi.
- A bank checks a KCC name once, at first availment, and never again.
- Tenant farmers, sharecroppers and oral lessees are all eligible.
Do this in a quiet month, not in the week the premium closes.
Half an hour with four papers on one table tells you which single record is wrong. Send us photographs of all four and we will tell you which one it is and what the letter should say.