Life Insurance Corp's sales drop 20 percent in east India
Kolkata, Sep 1 : Insurance major Life Insurance Corp's (LIC) sales of insurance
policies and first premium income in the eastern zone dropped 20 percent during the first
five months of the current fiscal, a top company official said here Monday.
"We have sold 1,175,000 policies and the first premium income was Rs.907 crore (Rs.9.07
billion) during the April to August period of the current financial year in the eastern
zone," said LIC zonal manager R.R. Dash in a press meet.
This drop is mainly due to volatility in the market, he said.
During the corresponding period last fiscal (2007-08), it sold 1.5 million new policies
and the first premium income stood at Rs.1,100 crore (Rs.11 billion), he said.
"In the current fiscal, we have a target to sell 5,250,000 policies in the eastern zone
and the premium target is Rs.5,500 crore (Rs.55 billion)," Dash said.
The highest selling products of the company in the eastern zone are Profit Plus
followed by Market Plus.
"We plan to increase the number of agents in the eastern zone this fiscal by 30 percent
from the present 158,000," Dash added.
The life fund of LIC stands at Rs.6,86,616 crore (Rs.6,866.16 billion) and its asset
base stands at Rs.803,820 crore (Rs.8,038.2 billion).
In the last fiscal, LIC has invested Rs.82,022 crore in the infrastructure and social
sector.
--IANS
