How UP covered 800,000 families left out of Ayushman Bharat due to data gap

Under the recently launched Mukhya Mantri Jan Arogya Abhiyan, these households are being provided the same coverage as they would have received under Ayushman Bharat

The Uttar Pradesh government's recently launched 'Mukhya Mantri Jan Arogya Abhiyan' is providing free medical cover to over 800,000 households which were not covered under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana due inadvertent gaps in the Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC-2011) data.
 

The chief minister's office had received complaints that some families that would have otherwise been eligible for coverage under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana had nonetheless been left out of the SECC-2011 data, senior UP health officials told Business Standard on condition of anonymity. And hence the same eligibility criteria used to select households for