Sunday, April 18, 2010

Hospital and NGO Workshop in Jharkhand

Government of Jharkhand is organising a workshop with NGOs and Hospitals on 24th April in Ranchi. The first half of the workshop will be focussed on discussion with NGOs and their role in RSBY. Experience of few NGOs who are working in the field will be shared. Government will discuss with NGOs about their role and how they can participate in RSBY to make it more effective in reaching the beneficiaries.

The second half of the workshop will be with hospitals and the agenda will be to discuss with hospitals about their role in RSBY and to explain them the benefits of joining RSBY. Few hospitals will share their expernece of RSBY also in this workshop.

RSBY Now on Facebook

A Group of RSBY has been created on the facebook which is called "Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana". This can also be used for information dissemination and discussions. The RSBY movie and few photographs of the scheme are already available there now.

Monday, April 5, 2010

RSBY Launched in More North Eastern States

RSBY was launched in the States of Arunachal  Pradesh and Mizoram from this year. The State Workshop was organised on 25th March in Itanagar and on 26th March in Aizawl. reresentatives of the Government of India, State Government officials, District officials, Inaurance Company representatives, TPA representatives, representatives of hospitals and NGOs participated in the workshop. In Arunachal Pradesh RSBY is being implemented by Rural Development Department and in Mizoram it is being implemented by Department of Health.

With these workshops, now RSBY has been launched in all the North Eastern States except Sikkim State.