RSBY National Workshop at Ranchi

The fourth RSBY National workshop is being organized at Ranchi from 09th to 11th April 2012. All the States active in RSBY are participating in this workshop. Representatives of Insurance Companies, Third Party Administrators, Smart Card Service Providers, International Agencies and other interested agencies are participating in this workshop.

Second Edition of RSBY Newsletter Available now

The second edition of RSBY newsletter RSBY Connect is available on the RSBY website. It can be downloaded from here.

Comments and suggestions are welcome and invited.

RSBY Takes Decision to migrate to 64kb Smart Cards

Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India has taken a decision to move from current 32kb smart cards to 64kb smart cards in a phased way. From April 2012 identified set of districts will start issuing 64kb smart cards. All the other districts will migrate to 64kb over next 12 months. 

Specifications of new Enrollment software have been released by MoLE and new enrollment software will be ready from April 2012. 

MoLE has decided that now the Transaction Software will be prepared at the central level and will be provided free of cost to all the Insurance Companies. This Transaction Software is being prepared at present and will be released by April 2012.

It has also been decided that all the Smart Card Service Providers will need to be accredited by Quality Council of India and they need to apply by end of February 2012 and get the accreditation by 15th March 2012. 

RSBY Newsletter

RSBY has started publishing a monthly newsletter to share with the larger audience information about the scheme in a structured basis periodically. The first newsletter in this series was released in February 2012 and this is available here.

Now suggestions and articles are invited for the new newsletter for the month of March which can be sent on rsby.connect@gmail.com in terms of good practices, innovations, beneficiary experience, write-ups etc.

You are also welcome to provide your suggestions for the newsletter.