You can find the details on http://www.licindia.in/special_plan_001_illustration.htm
You are getting 2 products - Death insurance and investment
On average one can say that death risk insurance is for Rs. 1.50 lacs. The premium for death risk only cover is Rs. 830/- per year.
Balance amount (Rs. 3874/-) is towards investment. If you invest this money in a bank for 25 years @ 8.5 percent you will get Rs. 3,30.663/-. This is assured and there is no problem.
Jeevan saral gives you assured of Rs. 215200/- and max of 426200/-. Max is on market conditions. As the world still faces the recession, it can be 215200/-. If you want to make money in equities go for mutual fund. They will give you more than 10 lacs in the similar market conditions.
There are no other risks.also - if you fail to pay the amount with 3 years you lose the whole amount. If you stop putting the money in the bank within 3 years there is no risk. You still earn all the interest and get back you money as well.If you fail to pay the money any time upto 10 years - you do not even get your money back.
All life insurance policies are like that. The reason is that a major portion of your premiums is paid as commission to agents and rest is administrative expenses of insurance company which are also huge.
SIP is simply a mutual fund. There are other mutual funds who are doing better than LIC. But overall there is no reason to compare SIP with Jeevan Saral. Both have a different degree of risk. You should compare only similar products. So far mutual funds are concerned I personally feel that in next 5 to 10 years there will be much bigger problem the market will not only crash but there may be new markets and these markets may simply close, if the govt manages the things in the same fashion.
Nobody is advising SIP because they do not get commission. The assured return is kust 1 or 2 % and not 10 to 12 % as projected in Jeeval saral.