Irda panel for Rs 1 lakh capital for corporate agents

New Delhi, May 13 Persons and houses with a low working capital of Rs 1 hundred thousand can move as corporate agents of coverage and sell policies through their agents, if the Irda accepts the recommendations of its commission on statistical distribution channels.

"The present bounds (of Rs 15 lakh) is very burdensome and the bounds of one hundred thousand proposed is reasonable", said the study of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) committee.

The less working capital demand will assist houses and NGOs to set about coverage intermediation, the study said.

Under the present Corporate Agent's Regulations, with a lower limit share working capital of Rs 15 hundred thousand can work as corporate agents of coverage , the study said, adding it "needs to be done away with."

A corporate agent Acts as an coverage agent for a life and general coverage company and procure concern on behalf of the insurance through its executives.

Regarding the wage of the agents, the committee have suggested that the commission rates cap should be removed. And, urban co-operative banks, RRBs, micro finance institutions, NGOs registered as trusts, should be permitted to administer micro coverage policies, the commission study said.

It further have proposed to spread out the scope of micro coverage federal agency by including any physical thing registered under the Societies Act. Current ordinances make not allow derived function pricing of products.

Stressing that the manner of payment for the claim colony or fillip and adulthood should be flexible like allowing cash, the Committee have got recommended that limited wage merchandises should have higher committees just like the involvement rates for micro-finance is higher thanbank rates.

The commission have got also recommended that specified people of a bank, and a company promoted by a bank, who work as corporate agents, should not have to travel for compulsory coverage agent training.

—PTI