The government introduced an insurance scheme for sheep, hoping it would help sheep-rearing farmers, two years ago.
However, it has decided to scrap the scheme after it realized it helped no one but the insurance company.
After the first phase of the scheme that covered five lakh sheep, the government realized that sheep are among the fittest animals that seldom die of diseases.
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