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Sikkim Earthquake alerts residents to secure Home Insurance

No Comments Sub Category:Awareness,Community Posted On: Sep 20, 2011

Insurance and Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA) chairman J Hari Narayan reported saying that the the home insurance polices upheld the house owners in Sikkim is being checked through our IRDA department. Industry estimates proved that 2% of India’s homes have been insured to protect themselves over the natural calamities and disasters, etc. Also that crores of rupees are being spent by borrowers every year in terms of repaying the home loan. However the deep study over this also proved that very less sum is being used on spending individual’s properties insurances. The tragic was that 6.8 Richter scale tremor in  Sikkim, North Bengal and parts of Nepal and Tibet and very less damage has been taken place wherein the there was traces of shaking ground in Kolkata and also the same in Jharkhand, Orissa and Delhi.

Bankers in these areas reported saying that the house owners who are looking forward from now on to insure their property are encouraged by providing complete information over this in all the bank sectors near by. The home insurance policy covers the payments over any damage caused by man-made or natural calamities, including the earthquake. The home loan contracts, particularly those of PSU banks, follow the standard policy of mortgaged house being insured and they also allow banks to insure the property and the payment charges are collected same by the policy companies. Segar Sampathkumar the deputy general manager at New India Assurance reported saying that many of the banks debit their own loan account from the borrowers in term of the premium payment and this holds good also in terms of housing loan agreements.

Source: The Economic Times

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