Application of Agriculture Real Time Insurance Software in Nepal
Agriculture
contributes 27% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) playing an inevitable role in
Nepalese economy. Livestock commodity of the agriculture sector that accounts
for 25.7% of agricultural GDP, also plays an important role in daily human
nutrition as well as national economy. Various risk in agriculture such as diseases,
pests and climate hazards, natural calamities and accidents cause serious
economic loss to the farming communities in Nepal. These risks in needs to be
addressed, where the agriculture insurance acts as an important risk bearing mechanism.
The conventional insurance models/systems face numerous challenges such as
insurance frauds, delayed claims and high operational costs, and less
transparent. Agriculture Insurance Real Time Software is integrated technology
that would play an inevitable role in mitigating these risks. Thus, the integrated
software will play a significant role in enhancing the efficacy of agriculture
and livestock insurance, check and balance the insurance frauds. In addition to
this, it helps in tracking subsidy amount, claims, reduce operational cost and
make the insurance sector more transparent.
The agriculture and livestock insurance policy can be issued through the link below:
Insurance policy issuance process
Link: alis.nia.gov.np
The farmer registers with his mobile number.
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Then, after generating an OTP, the user logs in with a
password and fills in the KYC.
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The farmer requests insurance for the relevant livestock or
vegetable farming.
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The company's branch reviews the request and either accepts
or rejects it. At the same time, the company designates the relevant technician
before accepting the request.
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Thereafter farmer fills the proposal form himself or through
an agent.
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The technician will log in and fill in the technical
details.
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The company's branch will log in and after reviewing the
proposal form and technical form, issue a draft insurance policy and send it to
the farmer for approval.
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The farmer will log in and review the draft insurance policy
and accept it if the details are correct.
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The company's branch will log in and put the draft insurance
policy in pending status.
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Finally, it will pull the data from the system to its system
through API and issue the insurance policy and finally push the data to the
Alis system.