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| Sham launches prestigious RSBY scheme | | Over 66,000 BPL families to avail benefits in phase-I | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Oct 13: Achieving another milestone in the history of State health department, Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Sham Lal Sharma today launched a prestigious Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY) in Jammu and Kashmir. The scheme will benefit around 66,000 BPL families of two capital districts, Srinagar and Jammu initially.
Expressing happiness after launching the scheme in presence of a team of Central Government and senior officers of State Government at a one-day workshop held here today , the Minister said that poor people of the State who ill afford treatment in the hospitals will receive the benefits under this specially designed scheme. He hoped that the scheme will be implemented in letter and spirit by the concerned displaying missionary zeal and spirit.
The RSBY has been launched in the State after giving due thought on its various aspects and benefits for the poor population. Initially it will be implemented in Jammu and Sringar district and gradually will be extended to all the districts of the State. He expressed optimism that the scheme would prove very useful and the distressed section of society will be benefitted in a big way.
Director General Labour Welfare, Government of India, Anil Swarup, who was special guest on the occasion, gave a detailed presentation enlighting the objectives of this centrally sponsored scheme, which has been successfully implemented in most of the States. He informed that the objective of the RSBY was to provide protection to BPL families and labour class from financial liabilities arising out of health dangers that involves hospitalization. He said over 19 million people have so far been covered under the yojana and successfully implemented in the country.
Elaborating, he said that the beneficiaries under RSBY scheme will be entitled to cashless hospitalization coverage for most of the diseases through the network of identified hospitals up to expenditure of Rs. 30,000/- per family per annum. This will cover five members of a family which include the head of the household, spouse and up to three dependents.
The Central and State Governments will pay the premium to the healthcare providers (insurance companies) being selected by the State Government. The contribution will be on 90-10 basis annually and the beneficiary family has to pay only registration fee of Rs. 30/- only, Swarup added.
Later, an MoU was signed between the Ministry of Labour Welfare, Government of India and State Government for the implementation of scheme.
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