‘Farmers are skilled workers’

Farmers would be considered as skilled workers and insurance companies cannot reduce the compensation under the Motor Vehicle (MV) Act on the ground their work required no formal education, a Delhi court has said.

Farmers would be considered as skilled workers and insurance companies cannot reduce the compensation under the Motor Vehicle (MV) Act on the ground their work required no formal education, a Delhi court has said.

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“Though each farmer of this country may not be educationally qualified as yet and it may yet be a dream, but that does not mean he is not skilled for tilling his fields,” the court said.