Saturday, February 27, 2010

Extension of RSBY to NREGA Beneficiaries, Railway Coolies and Hawkers

In view of the success of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) scheme, the Union government has decided to extend its benefits to NREGA beneficiaries who have worked for more than 15 days during the preceding financial year in a move to provide health insurance to them.

Railway Minister in her railway budget also announced extension of RSBY to railway coolies and hawkers across India.

In addition to the Building and Construction Workers who have already been covered under the scheme these announcements indicates that now RSBY is going to cover people who may not be BPL. 

RSBY Launched in Manipur

State workshop of RSBY was organised in Imphal on 19th February. Government of Manipur has decided to implement RSBY in all the nine districts of the State. New India Insurance Company has been selected through an open tendering process and they will be implementing the scheme in the State.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

RSBY Regional workshop at Cochin

As part of the series of regional workshops, regional workshop for South and West regions was organised in Cochin on 18th and 19th Feb. Representatives of State Governments of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Kerala along with representatives of Insurance Companies, Third Party Administrators and Smart Card Agencies participated in the workshop.

Intensive discussions took place with all the stakeholders and the perfomance of the States in implementing RSBY was reviewed. The purpose of these regional workshops is to share issues relating to  the implementation of the scheme and try to learn from each other's good practices. Another important objective of organising these workshops for Government of India is to seek feedback and suggestions from the States regarding the current issues and proposed intiatives within RSBY.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

RSBY Reaches Landmark of 12 million BPL Families

In just a little over 22 months since its beginning RSBY reached the landmark of covering 12 million BPL families on 16th Feb 2010. This translates into approximately 50 million people covered under RSBY across India. RSBY has started or in the process of being implemented in 25 States now.

Following States have already started implementing the scheme:
Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Punjab, Tamilnadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand and West Bengal

RSBY is in the process of being implemented in the following States:
Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh

For further details and data regarding implementation please visit http://www.rsby.in/