The Cabinet of Tripura has given indication for the commencement of the State’s own ‘Chief Minister’s Jan Arogya Yojana’ followed with the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) aims to provide Health Insurance coverage to all the segments of the State’s population in contrast mode, ensuring the Security of people’s healthcare needs and other requirements.
Addressing a press conference in the conference hall of the Civil Secretariat, Minister of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs of Tripura, Sushanta Chowdhury said that through this Scheme, patients will be provided cashless, paperless health insurance benefits. Each family under this scheme will get Health Insurance benefits up to Rs 5 Lakh per annum, he told to reporters. In order to ensure and get benefit from Health Insurance services to the left-out families, the State Government has decided to launch Chief Minister’s Jan Arogya Yojana programme aligning with Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, he further added.
The Minister also said that 10,000 Construction workers in the state who are under various insurances under the Labor Department will not come under the Chief Minister’s ‘Jan Arogya Yojana’. Cabinet members and members including Chief Minister, all levels of Government employees including MLAs can also be covered under this scheme. However, in the case of Government employees, Group-A and Group-B employees who are getting Medical Reimbursement have to surrender and Group-C and Group-D employees who are getting Medical Allowance of Rs. 6,000 per annum may also have to surrender, the Minister told.
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