· Electronics and Information Technology (E&IT) Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad set a target for Common Service Centers to enrol five crore people under the Central government’s Ayushman Bharat healthcare scheme in the next two months.
· Ayushman Bharat aims to provide coverage of up to Rs. 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation.
· The scheme is benefitting 3 lakh people with 2.5 crore cards issued till now. Of these, nearly 80% cards have been issued through CSCs.
· The CSCs and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) had earlier partnered to implement the Ayushman Bharat scheme using the over 3 lakh-strong CSC network across the country.
· Under the partnership, CSCs help a beneficiary identify his name in the MoH&FW database and his entitlement for the scheme, and help them scan/upload KYC (Know Your Client) documents for identity, among other things.
· CSCs get about Rs. 30 for supporting the beneficiary, identification, uploading documents and printing a laminated card.
Source : The Hindu
10.03.2019