The Economic Times (Feb. 2, 2012) | The coverage of farmers under Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) has gone up from 35,000 in Kharif 2007 to 61.6 lakh in Kharif 2011. Claims worth Rs 972 crore have been settled so far. The overall coverage under the scheme is 1.95 crore farmers over an area of 2.78 crore hectares.