{"id":297259,"date":"2026-04-30T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=297259"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:10:08","slug":"insurance-agents-will-now-get-15-hours-of-vocational-training-and-rs-accident-insurance-of-rs-7-lakh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/insurance-agents-will-now-get-15-hours-of-vocational-training-and-rs-accident-insurance-of-rs-7-lakh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance agents will now get 15 hours of vocational training and Rs. Accident insurance of Rs 7 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Insurance companies are now required to provide at least 15 hours of professional training to their agents. Apart from this, the company will also have to provide insurance worth Rs 7 lakh to the insurance agent. <\/p>\n<p>These provisions have been made in the Insurance Agent Directive, 2083 issued by the Nepal Insurance Authority. Each insurer shall provide at least 15 hours of professional development training to a licensed insurance agent during the renewal period to maintain his or her professional standards. Such training should cover the technical aspects of insurance, legal provisions and market conduct. <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the directive also provides for accident insurance of insurance agents. The insurer should provide accident insurance worth Rs 7 lakh to its agent. <\/p>\n<p>As per the directive, the insurance agent should recommend the policy on the basis of the nature of risk of the insured, financial literacy and necessity of the insured before recommending the policy. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Insurance companies are now required to provide at least 15 hours of professional training to their agents. Apart from this, the company will also have to provide insurance worth Rs 7 lakh to the insurance agent. These provisions have been made in the Insurance Agent Directive, 2083 issued by the Nepal Insurance Authority. Each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":200723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45057,45031,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abhikarta-en","category-banner-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297260,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297259\/revisions\/297260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/200723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}