Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
02-December-2011 18:10 IST
The state-wise number of branches of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and Public Sector General Insurance Companies is at Annex.
At present there are 138 regular branch offices and 93 satellite offices of LIC and 238 Branch Offices of Public Sector General Insurance Companies located in West Bengal. These are found to be adequate in giving services to the policyholders in the State.
ANNEX
STATE-WISE BRANCH OFFICES OF LIC AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANIES |
Sl. No. | Name of State/ Union Territories | No. of LIC's Office | No. of offices of Public Sector General Insurance Companies |
1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 1 | 2 |
2 | Andhra Pradesh | 176 | 383 |
3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 5 |
4 | Assam | 49 | 134 |
5 | Bihar | 60 | 127 |
6 | Chandigarh | 6 | 38 |
7 | Chastisgarh | 26 | 56 |
8 | Dadra & Nagar Haveli | 0 | 2 |
9 | Daman & Diu | 0 | 2 |
10 | Delhi | 61 | 215 |
11 | Goa | 11 | 25 |
12 | Gujarat | 142 | 280 |
13 | Haryana | 40 | 145 |
14 | Himachal Pradesh | 23 | 51 |
15 | Jammu & Kashmir | 17 | 56 |
16 | Jharkhand | 41 | 87 |
17 | Karnataka | 138 | 307 |
18 | Kerala | 85 | 263 |
19 | Lakshwadweep | 0 | 0 |
20 | Madhya Pradesh | 114 | 191 |
21 | Maharashtra | 250 | 502 |
22 | Manipur | 4 | 4 |
23 | Meghalaya | 3 | 13 |
24 | Mizoram | 1 | 4 |
25 | Nagaland | 3 | 5 |
26 | Odisha | 56 | 128 |
27 | Puducherry | 3 | 15 |
28 | Punjab | 63 | 275 |
29 | Rajasthan | 110 | 224 |
30 | Sikkim | 1 | 4 |
31 | Tamil Nadu | 173 | 489 |
32 | Tripura | 4 | 11 |
33 | Uttar Pradesh | 215 | 398 |
34 | Uttarakhand | 32 | 65 |
35 | West Bengal | 138 | 218 |
TOTAL | 2048 | 4724 |
Note: General Insurance Corporation of India, the Indian re-insurer with its Headquarters in Mumbai has no branch in India but having three liaison offices in Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata which do not transact any re-insurance business.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Finance, Shri Namo Narain Meena in written reply to an Unstarred Question in Lok Sabha today.
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Branch network adequacy: state-wise distribution of insurer branch offices confirmed and overall totals reported in government release. State-wise counts of branch offices of life insurers and public-sector general insurers are reported, with the release stating that offices in West Bengal are adequate to serve policyholders; the tabulation includes aggregate totals and notes that the national re-insurer maintains liaison offices that do not transact re-insurance business.
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