Health Min to implement RSBY from tomorrow

From tomorrow, the Health Ministry will implement the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY), which till now was under the Labour Ministry.
"The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY) of the Labour and Employment Ministry will now be implemented by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare," Labour Ministry said in a release today.
In pursuance of a recent policy decision of government, the Labour and Employment Ministry is handing over the RSBY scheme to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with effect from tomorrow, it added.
RSBY, the health insurance scheme for below poverty line families (BPL) was launched for workers in unorganised sector in 2007-08.

The scheme provides for IT-enabled and smart card-based cashless healthy insurance, including maternity benefit cover of up to Rs 30,000 per annum to BPL families (a unit of five) and 11 occupational groups in the unorganised sector.
The scheme has benefited over 3.85 crore families up to March 31, 2014, the release said.

As many as 10,311 hospitals are providing services to the insured persons which include 6,093 private hospitals and 4,218 government hospitals.
Central share to the tune of Rs 3,738.05 crore was released during the last six years and the release during current fiscal is Rs 548.20 crore up to March 23, 2015.

In India, out of the estimated workforce of 47 crore, only 8 crore are organised workers and 39 crore are workers in the unorganised sector, said the release.