The Delhi government is ready to sign an MoU with the National Health Authority on March 18 to implement the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY). Official sources gave this information on Thursday. With this, the 35th state/union territory will become the implementation of Delhi Health Insurance Scheme. West Bengal will be the only state that has not adopted this scheme.
Memorandum of Understanding can be signed on 18 March
Sources said, “On March 18, a memorandum will be signed in the presence of Union Health Minister JP Nadda and five families will be given AB-PMJAY cards, making them beneficiaries of the scheme.”
The implementation of the scheme was one of the major promises of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the Delhi Assembly elections. The previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led government had launched its own plan and refused to implement AB-PMJAY.
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Health insurance cover
The BJP won the Delhi Assembly elections on February 5 and returned to power in Delhi after more than 26 years. AB-PMJAY offers about 55 crore beneficiaries with 12.37 crore families included in the economically weaker 40 percent of the population of India, in case of admission to secondary and territory hospitals, the family provides a health insurance cover of five lakh rupees per family every year.
The Central Government had expanded AB-PMJAY on 29 October 2024 to provide free treatment benefits to all senior citizens of 70 years and above, other than their socio-economic status, up to five lakh rupees per year.
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